Artistic Representation of Gender Nonconforming Female Bodies in Social Media: A Study of Select Indian Graphic Artists on Instagram
- Title
- Artistic Representation of Gender Nonconforming Female Bodies in Social Media: A Study of Select Indian Graphic Artists on Instagram
- Creator
- Bose A.; Tanupriya; Singh A.
- Description
- The study critically examines gender nonconforming female identities via their sex-ualized representations through artistic imagination on Instagram. Instagram representation becomes a political act where this visual subversion allows the queer to reclaim their non-binary identity and thus articulate their choices through their body. The digital graphic art taken under study is select images from the Instagram pages of Indian artists artwhoring, aorists, and sayartic. The research study examines the question of an ideal hegemonic femininity perpetuated by the rhetoric of Indian heteronormative patriarchal assertions. It analyses select images that defy hegemonic femininity and gender binary by embodying an amalgamation of masculinity and femininity and lesbian desire which forms an act of subversion. The methodology of critical discourse analysis is employed to study Instagram art and the critical frameworks of the fantasy female body, and the notion of hetero-patriarchal femininity. In conclusion, the study discusses the treatment of female gender non-conforming bodies, their appearance, lesbian desire, and body image. Such transgressive depiction of bodies successfully situates the female body beyond the dichotomy of masculinity and femininity. 2023 The Author(s). All rights reserved.
- Source
- QED, Vol-10, No. 2, pp. 70-92.
- Date
- 2023-01-01
- Publisher
- Michigan State University Press
- Coverage
- Bose A., Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST University, India; Tanupriya, Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR campus, India; Singh A., Department of English and Cultural Studies, CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Delhi NCR campus, India
- Rights
- Restricted Access
- Relation
- ISSN: 23271574
- Format
- Online
- Language
- English
- Type
- Article
Collection
Citation
Bose A.; Tanupriya; Singh A., “Artistic Representation of Gender Nonconforming Female Bodies in Social Media: A Study of Select Indian Graphic Artists on Instagram,” CHRIST (Deemed To Be University) Institutional Repository, accessed February 25, 2025, https://archives.christuniversity.in/items/show/14202.