Birth Images on Instagram
The Disruptive Visuality of Birthing Bodies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8068081 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shui-Yin Sharon Yam (University of Kentucky, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 80-100 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s Studies in Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0749-1409 • E-ISSN: 2152-999X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07491409.2018.1561564 |
| OpenAlex | W2945595590 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article examines Katie Vigos’s petition and Instagram account @empoweredbirthproject that protests the social media platform’s censorship against images of physiologic births. In analyzing specific images, captions, and responses from the audience, I argue that Vigos’s project functions as an alternative form of birth educational material that retrains the audience’s gaze and feelings toward birth and the laboring body. I demonstrate that @empoweredbirthproject actively disrupts the dominant articulation of childbirth as pathological and the laboring body as abject by prompting audience members to consider the ideological underpinnings behind their emotional reactions toward images of physiologic births
Aesthetics · Art · Articulation (sociology · Censorship · Childbirth · Feeling · Gaze · Ideology · Political science · Politics · Pregnancy · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |