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Gender-Reveal Parties as Mediated Events
Celebrating Identity in Pink and Blue
Sofort lieferbar | Lieferzeit: Sofort lieferbar I
ISBN-13:
9781793603845
Veröffentl:
2019
Seiten:
144
Autor:
Carly Gieseler
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
A popular trend of the digital era, gender-reveal parties have captured the cultural imagination and fostered divisive discourse. This book explores several related aspects including technologies of reproduction and media; community and competition; visibility and signifying the unborn; consumerist imperatives; and those uninvited from this trend.
A decade ago, it was difficult to imagine parents-to-be jumping from planes or dyeing their hair to publicly declare the sex of their unborn children. Yet gender-reveal parties have rapidly grown in popularity, saturating the public imagination surrounding pregnancy and parenthood. As a highly visible trend, gender-reveals correlate with our increased digital capacity for sharing, competitive consumerism, ritualized communitas, and social media currency. At the roots of this trend, there may be motivations to reassert binary identities against a climate of acceptance and progression surrounding gender fluidity. To analyze the divisive discourse surrounding this phenomenon, this book explores issues including technologies of reproduction and media; community and competition; visibility and signifying the unborn; consumerist imperatives; and those uninvited from this trend. In the process of selecting costumes of gender before birth, Gieseler argues, parents-to-be appropriate the unborn body as a contested, discursive site.
Chapter One: Party Planning: Introducing the Gender-Reveal Phenomenon
Chapter Two: Technology of Media and Medicine: Exploring the Digital Publication of Reproduction
Chapter Three: Social Media Community and Competition in the Gender-Reveal Trend
Chapter Four: Marking the Unknown
Chapter Five: The Re-birth of an Industry and Ideology: Consumerism and Access
Chapter Six: Concluding Thoughts and Last Rites