Beauty Myth of Muslim Women When Hijab and Beauty are Featured in Instagram

DOI

10.2991/icss-18.2018.62How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Keywords: muslim women, social media, hijab, beauty myth, instagram

Abstract

This research examines beauty myth of muslim women ie when hijab and beauty are featured in instagram using an discourse analysis and cyberfeminism approach. Several theories are employed in this research including the theory of discourse analysis, sociology of body and the concept of mythology. Results indicates that the presentation in instagram contributes to construct the discourse about the beautiful concept of a muslim. Contemporary muslim women are more aware of creating their own identity regardless of the social interpretation attached to them. In instagram accounts, women become producers as well as consumers of their own beauty discourse. The implications of this research are this study is expected to contribute information and enrich the repertoire of social science especially sociology also for the development of research on women body, hijab and beauty.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Refti Handini Listyani
AU  - DIyah Utami
AU  - FX. Sri Sadewo
PY  - 2018/10
DA  - 2018/10
TI  - Beauty Myth of Muslim Women When Hijab and Beauty are Featured in Instagram
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Sciences (ICSS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 306
EP  - 310
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icss-18.2018.62
DO  - 10.2991/icss-18.2018.62
ID  - Listyani2018/10
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