It revealed, she said, how paintings and other art forms moved from showing pregnant bodies “as affirmations of paternalistic structures of inheritance and power” to trying to pretend they didn’t actually exist (or the condition of being pregnant didn’t) to putting pregnancy front and center as an increasingly idealized state.

At least until the child emerged and the woman was transformed into a paragon of pure maternal selflessness. It had become a symbol of our base desires and a sign of female instability and lack of control and thus something best kept behind closed doors and (literally) under wraps.

Tsaliki said, it had been transformed into a shameful state, one connected not so much to the sacred as the profane. In ancient times, pregnancy was venerated and exhibited, seen as a physical embodiment of women’s connection to mother earth, but by the Middle Ages and medieval Christendom, Ms. The pregnant body, after all, has been celebrated, policed, hidden away and considered problematic for centuries. That she can be “autonomous, powerful and herself, even while carrying a life.” She’s connecting the right to dress how you like with all sorts of other, more constitutional rights. “She’s saying, ‘I’m a person still, and I’m my person.’” Ms. (They also explain why this particular “get-the-look” role modeling has been so disproportionately exciting for so many.)īy dressing to showcase her pregnant belly, and in a way that has nothing to do with traditional maternity wear, Rihanna is modeling an entirely opposite reality. Tsaliki calls “the aestheticization of the body and the monitoring of women’s waistlines” and (3) modern politics.Īll of which take this particular pregnancy dress story far beyond mere “get the look” role modeling. The result is a dizzying swirl of contemporary phenomena, including: (1) celebrity culture, in which we increasingly take our consumer and behavioral cues from boldface names (2) what Ms. It’s just all couched in the familiar trope of the “celebrity bump watch.” Sneaky, right? She’s making a “totally transgressive and highly political statement,” said Liza Tsaliki, a professor of media studies and popular culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. In dressing to confront the world with the physical reality of her pregnancy so consistently, Rihanna has gone way past just making a fashion statement. But, really, the style choices are just the beginning. Perfect for a wedding, party, meetings, daily wear, holiday occasions.They’re right, of course. OCCASION & WEAR ABILITY: Recommended for a party or causal Wear.

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