Women's discursive performances of wellness on social media: a feminist critical discourse analysis

我的博士研究考察了女性在Instagram上关于健康的话语表演中女性身份的构建。健康可以被理解为一种暂时的健康文化，包括一系列促进心灵和身体净化和优化的生活方式信仰和实践。作为生产者和消费者，女性比男性更有可能与健康打交道，经常在社交媒体上表演生活方式的正确性。在撰写本文时，Instagram上有4320万条帖子出现在健康标签下，这些帖子展示了女性健康之旅的可视化记录。本研究通过女性主义理论的视角运用批评性话语分析(CDA)(Fairclough et al，2011；Lazar 2005)，旨在理解和阐明健康话语如何产生理想化的“健康”女性身份，以及这与健康和身体意识的意识形态性别划分之间的关联和强化。调查结果将提供对女性健康焦虑的社会政治性质的洞察，以及它们与更广泛的性别压迫结构的关系。

My doctoral research examines constructions of feminineidentity within female discursive performances ofwellness on Instagram. Wellness can be understood as acontemporary health culture, encompassing a collection oflifestyle beliefs and practices to promote mind and bodypurification and optimisation. Both as producers andconsumers, women are more likely than men to engagewith wellness, often taking to social media to enactperformances of lifestyle correctness online. At the timeof writing, 43.2 million posts on Instagram appear under thehashtag wellness, signposting content that enacts a visualdocumentation of women's wellness journeys. Utilisingcritical discourse analysis (CDA) through the lens offeminist theory (Fairclough et al, 2011; Lazar 2005), thisresearch aims to understand and elucidate the waysthrough which wellness discourses produce an idealised'healthy' feminine identity, and how this relates to andreinforces the ideological gendering of health and bodyconsciousness. Findings will offer insight into the socio political nature of women's health anxieties and theirrelationship to wider structures of gender-basedoppression.