Abstract

Women with hijab often generate a controversy. Hijabed women in a sexy selfie are one example of it. The action of selfie photo becomes a new trend in line with the popularity of visual-based social media like Instagram. Taking and uploading selfie photos on Instagram seems to be indispensable for some people, including hijabed women. This paper is aimed to examine photos of sexy selfie of hijabed women uploaded in Instagram account @jilbabootd. The purpose of this paper is to reveal the practice of objectification of a women’s bodies by analyzing the comments raised by followers of account @jilbabootd. This study is framed by Lacan's psychoanalytic theory of desire, lack, and pleasure. The @jilbabootd account is intentionally created for the purpose of the self-certified sexy self-certified photo shoot. Women who become an admin in the @jilbabootd account reproduce the discourse of male gaze. Women who become followers in this account also perpetuate the male domination of women by giving comments that the language is very male (manly). The hijabed women who send sexy selfie photos are "willingly" expose their bodies to become objects of male fantasy, gaze, and pleasure. They get their own pleasure by becoming the objects of gaze.

Keywords

desire, hijabed women, objectification, pleasure, sexy selfie

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