Gender-Reveal Parties as Mediated Events - Celebrating Identity in Pink and Blue (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2019
Authors:	Carly Gieseler
Dimensions:	233 x 161 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	130
ISBN-13:	978-1-79360-383-8
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General
LSN:	1-79360-383-9
Barcode:	9781793603838

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