Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora
Vol 9, No 2 (2021)

Subjectivity of Women’s Body on Tiktok

Ratna Kumalasari (Universitas Sebelas Maret)



Article Info

Publish Date
19 Apr 2022

Abstract

Tiktok has become very popular among people from various backgrounds, but especially among women. Although they can use Tiktok for a variety of activities, many women use Tiktok to show off their dances. This study argues that Tiktok application provides a medium for women to articulate their interpretation of their body that is limited by dominant discourses (especially around beauty) yet simultaneously liberating from everyday constraints. Through Tiktok, women show off their understanding of women’s bodies freed from the gendered prescriptions. This freedom of interpretation can be understood as women’s becoming the subject of their bodies. This study attempts to argue that in women’s embodiment in Tiktok, where women’s body is in contact with technology, the body has transformed its meaning into the posthuman body, to the extent it frees itself from the limitations of the body as bound to physiological function and fixed meanings.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

Retorik

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Education Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Social Sciences

Description

Retorik: Jurnal Ilmu Humaniora was founded in 2001 with the aim of seeking a new scientific ethos in the humanities with an interdisciplinary, political, and textual spirit. It was, and still remains, the aspiration of Retorik to foster humanities research with a scientific ethos capable of ...