This volume maps the role of mobile communication in the daily lives of women around the globe, shedding light on 'under-the-radar' use of mobile communication to display a nuanced understanding of social impacts that may affect the gender construction processes of women at the individual, institutional, and societal levels.

Xin Pei is Lecturer in Media and Communications at the School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne. Her research focus lies in examining the social consequences of adopting information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the context of marginalization.

Pranav Malhotra is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on how the affordances of social and mobile media intersect with relational and cultural norms to influence how people engage with information and each other in mediated spaces.

Rich Ling recently retired from the Shaw Foundation Professorship of Media Technology, at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. For more than three decades, he has studied the social consequences of mobile communication.

Section 1 Introduction

Chapter 1. Introduction

Section 2 Gendered mobile (ex)inclusion across sociocultural milieux

Chapter 2. Chores, Mores, and Digital Doors; Computer and Mobile Pathways to Digital Skills

Chapter 3. The hidden colonialities of mobile communication: phone uses by women in a South African rural community

Chapter 4. The digital divides in Hong Kong: A small stories analysis of older women's use of smartphones and mobile technologies

Chapter 5. Mobile telephony and identity expression of the Senufo women farmers in Côte d'Ivoire: A socio-anthropological reflection on the production and marketing chain of néré

Section 3 Economic (dis)empowerment and mobile communication

Chapter 6 Economic potentials of gendered mobile communication: Digitization communication and financial independence in East Africa

Chapter 7. Gender and the social impacts of rural mobile finance

Chapter 8. Secrets in the marketplace of intimacy: heterosexuality and mobile phones in Dar es Salaam

Section 4 Migration of women and mobile-mediated mobility

Chapter 9. Bonding, bridging, and belonging: Smartphone practices of migrant women from the Global South resettling in Rural-Norway

Chapter 10. Smartphones, shopping and the technomobility of migrant mothers

Chapter 11. Expectation Asymmetries in Mobile Communication of Chinese 'Study Mothers (Peidu Mama)': Long-Distance Intimacy, Gender Positionality and Emotion Work

Chapter 12. At the intersection of multiple systems of power: a systematic review of gender, migrants, and mobiles

Chapter 13. Climate change-induced displacement, gender, and mobile telephony in West Bengal, India

Section 5 (C)overt resistance and self-expression in negotiated mobile spaces

Chapter 14. "Invisible people have no politics": Becoming middle-class working women with rural roots in a mobile assemblage

Chapter 15. Mobile Kasambahay: Digital inclusion and the transformation of everyday life of live-in domestic workers in the Philippines

Chapter 16. An Instagram of One's Own: Young Indian women's use of mobile technologies for skilling and work

Chapter 17. Lower-class women and their use of mobile communication in Italy

Chapter 18. Imagining and performing the agentic self: An ethnographic exploration of Muslim teenage girls' mobile youth culture in Flanders

Chapter 19. Feminist resistance on Chinese social media: Guerrilla warfare under the hashtag