Mozaik Humaniora
Vol. 25 No. 1 (2025): MOZAIK HUMANIORA VOL. 25 NO. 1

Undoing Gender in Indonesian Beauty Brand Dear Me Beauty Instagram Post

Ningsih, Ana Widia (Unknown)
Tallapessy, Albert (Unknown)
Hari Murti, Ghanesya (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
31 Dec 2025

Abstract

This article deals with the investigation of undoing gender in Dear Me Beauty advertised in Instagram post. The promotions of makeup products using male models are identified as an action to break the stereotypes of beauty products by “undoing” dominant notions of personhood commonly done by woman. The data were collected from Instagram which were posted in 2022. This research constitutes a reconsideration of Dear Me Beauty advertisement that employs gender performativity for celebrating persistence and existence of diverse gender expression. Multimodal Discourse Analysis combining Systemic Functional Linguistics by Halliday (1994), Visual Grammar by Kress & van Leeuwen (2006), and a concept of   Gender by Butler (2004) were used  to show how the interplay between semiotic modes to construe meaning. There are four images and 26 clauses selected from the post. The result of the study shows the visual and linguistics analysis of Dear Me Beauty celebrates gender diversity but remains to focus on target market as the target consumers.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

MOZAIK

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Mozaik Humaniora is a journal that focuses on the scope of humanities and accepts articles on cultural studies, linguistic and literary studies, as well as philology and historical studies. ...