Ni Santas Ni Putas, Sólo Mujeres: Disrupting Appropriate Latina Femininity through Raunch Aesthetics on Instagram

Ni Santas Ni Putas, Sólo Mujeres: Disrupting Appropriate Latina Femininity through Raunch Aesthetics on Instagram

This thesis analyzes how Latinas on Instagram actively resist social and cultural conventions of sexuality, propriety and femininity through the adornment and arrangement of their bodies. Taking into account expectations of women's behavior in public spaces, I examine the ways social media as a...

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Main Author: Barreto, Andrea
Other Authors: Chavez, Christopher
Language:en_US
Published: University of Oregon 2018
Subjects:
Femininity
Instagram
Latina
Productive perversity
Raunch aesthetics
Sexuality
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23833
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spelling ndltd-uoregon.edu-oai-scholarsbank.uoregon.edu-1794-238332019-03-14T17:22:17Z Ni Santas Ni Putas, Sólo Mujeres: Disrupting Appropriate Latina Femininity through Raunch Aesthetics on Instagram Barreto, Andrea Chavez, Christopher Femininity Instagram Latina Productive perversity Raunch aesthetics Sexuality This thesis analyzes how Latinas on Instagram actively resist social and cultural conventions of sexuality, propriety and femininity through the adornment and arrangement of their bodies. Taking into account expectations of women's behavior in public spaces, I examine the ways social media as a digital public sphere reliant upon user-generated visual content creates opportunities for rejecting mutually exclusive understandings of womanhood. The Latina users in this study employ raunch aesthetics and the performance of productive perversity, as theorized by Jillian Hernandez (2014) and Celine Parreñas Shimizu (2007) respectively, via accessories and nonverbal behavior to problematize racialized and classed representations of gender. 2018-09-06T22:03:37Z 2018-09-06T22:03:37Z 2018-09-06 Electronic Thesis or Dissertation http://hdl.handle.net/1794/23833 en_US All Rights Reserved. University of Oregon
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topic Femininity
Instagram
Latina
Productive perversity
Raunch aesthetics
Sexuality
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Instagram
Latina
Productive perversity
Raunch aesthetics
Sexuality
Barreto, Andrea
Ni Santas Ni Putas, Sólo Mujeres: Disrupting Appropriate Latina Femininity through Raunch Aesthetics on Instagram
description This thesis analyzes how Latinas on Instagram actively resist social and cultural conventions of sexuality, propriety and femininity through the adornment and arrangement of their bodies. Taking into account expectations of women's behavior in public spaces, I examine the ways social media as a digital public sphere reliant upon user-generated visual content creates opportunities for rejecting mutually exclusive understandings of womanhood. The Latina users in this study employ raunch aesthetics and the performance of productive perversity, as theorized by Jillian Hernandez (2014) and Celine Parreñas Shimizu (2007) respectively, via accessories and nonverbal behavior to problematize racialized and classed representations of gender.
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Barreto, Andrea
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title Ni Santas Ni Putas, Sólo Mujeres: Disrupting Appropriate Latina Femininity through Raunch Aesthetics on Instagram
title_short Ni Santas Ni Putas, Sólo Mujeres: Disrupting Appropriate Latina Femininity through Raunch Aesthetics on Instagram
title_full Ni Santas Ni Putas, Sólo Mujeres: Disrupting Appropriate Latina Femininity through Raunch Aesthetics on Instagram
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