"food Porn" as Postfeminist Play: Digital femininity and the female body on food blogs

Dejmanee, T

"food Porn" as Postfeminist Play: Digital femininity and the female body on food blogs

Dejmanee, T

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Publisher:: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Television and New Media, 2016, 17, (5), pp. 429-448
Issue Date:: 2016-07-01

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dc.contributor.author	Dejmanee, T https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7517-211X
dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-15T04:49:12Z
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dc.date.issued	2016-07-01
dc.identifier.citation	Television and New Media, 2016, 17, (5), pp. 429-448
dc.identifier.issn	1527-4764
dc.identifier.issn	1552-8316
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dc.description.abstract	The styling and online circulation of food photography has become a phenomenon endemic to social media. In this article, I explore this digital "food porn" within the feminized space of food blogs and contextualize it within a postfeminist culture rife with contradictions about women's bodies, consumption, and sexuality. Drawing on postfeminist and feminist corporeal theory, I historicize the longstanding associations between food and the female body, eating and sex. I then analyze digital "food porn" as a form of women's media production that draws on conventional representations of the female body in pornography, fashion, and popular culture. It is these qualities that distinguish digital "food porn" from "food porn" on other media platforms, and allow it to offer useful insights into the postfeminist subject's construction of digital femininity. I maintain that digital "food porn" can be read as a playful, pleasurable, and entrepreneurial response to postfeminist contradictions.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
dc.relation.ispartof	Television and New Media
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dc.subject	1902 Film, Television and Digital Media, 2001 Communication and Media Studies, 2002 Cultural Studies
dc.title	"food Porn" as Postfeminist Play: Digital femininity and the female body on food blogs
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Abstract:

The styling and online circulation of food photography has become a phenomenon endemic to social media. In this article, I explore this digital "food porn" within the feminized space of food blogs and contextualize it within a postfeminist culture rife with contradictions about women's bodies, consumption, and sexuality. Drawing on postfeminist and feminist corporeal theory, I historicize the longstanding associations between food and the female body, eating and sex. I then analyze digital "food porn" as a form of women's media production that draws on conventional representations of the female body in pornography, fashion, and popular culture. It is these qualities that distinguish digital "food porn" from "food porn" on other media platforms, and allow it to offer useful insights into the postfeminist subject's construction of digital femininity. I maintain that digital "food porn" can be read as a playful, pleasurable, and entrepreneurial response to postfeminist contradictions.

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