Beauty and the Bump: Celebrities, Social Media and the Consumption of Pregnancy

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Title

Beauty and the Bump: Celebrities, Social Media and the Consumption of Pregnancy

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

Description

In an image driven world, the bodies of female celebrities fascinate us. We devour a plethora of publications ranging from pregnancy bumps to postpartum beauties, with good mothers like Gwyneth and bad mothers like Britney. Popular media is loaded with stories which uphold cultural ideologies and expectations. Yet what effect do these stories have on the everyday mother, who doesn’t relate to the image of the celebrity who ‘has it all’? Where do men feature within these culturally mediated st...

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Research paper

Research format

Scholarly text / Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2016

Creator

Bremer, Anastasia

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/6266

Related subjects

social media / identity / celebrities / celebrity / baby / babies / motherhood / mother / woman / masculinity / femininity / sociology / gender studies / Goffman / consumption / pregnancy / post-partum / online / female / instagram / twitter / facebook / bodies / sexuality / fatherhood / sexy dad / perfect mother / good mother / feminism / sociocultural / anonymity / looking glass self / like / iMe / Kardashian / yummy mummy / crossfit / gender roles / power / fitness / postpartum / bad mother / image / teenage mother / fertility / parenting / performativity / hegemonic

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