Honors Theses
Advisor
Susan L. Trollinger, Ph.D.
Department
English
Publication Date
4-2016
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Abstract
Instagram has skyrocketed in popularity over the last few years, catapulting some of its users into a new type of fame--"Instafame." Female users who achieve "Instafame" do so in large measure by carefully constructing an identity that articulates a popular ideal of the female body. Many commentators see this presentation of self as a new means of empowerment. But others argue that these "Instafamous" women are pressured to objectify themselves in order to accumulate thousands of “likes” to create and sustain their celebrity status. In this presentation, I analyze the images on some popular fitness Instagram accounts using the feminist works of Kate Millett and Sut Jhally.
Permission Statement
This item is protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code) and may only be used for noncommercial, educational, and scholarly purposes
Keywords
Undergraduate research
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities
eCommons Citation
Spech, Sarah, "“Instafamous” Women and the Question of Empowerment: Feminist Reading of Popular Constructions of Female Bodies on Instagram" (2016). Honors Theses. 134.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/uhp_theses/134
