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The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s
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The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s Paperback - 2004

by Liz Conor


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In The Spectacular Modern Woman, Liz Conor illustrates how technological advances in image reproduction transformed Western industrial societies into visual or "ocularcentric" cultures with significant and complex consequences for women's lives. With the rise of mass media, photography, and movies, a woman's visibility became a mark of her modernity, and the result was at once liberating and confining, given the many narrow conceptions of what it meant to be a modern woman. Focusing on the city girl in the metropolitan scene, the "Screen Struck Girl" in the cinematic scene, the mannequin in the commodity scene, the beauty contestant in the photographic scene, the "primitive" woman in the late colonial scene, and the flapper in the heterosexual leisure scene, Conor shows how women's roles were intimately tied to the visual culture of the day.

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  • Title The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s
  • Author Liz Conor
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 360
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press
  • Date 2004-07-16
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780253216700 / 0253216702
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Women in popular culture - History - 20th, Mass media and women - History - 20th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003022618
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.230

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  • Choice, 05/01/2005, Page 1572

About the author

Liz Conor completed her Ph.D. in women's studies at La Trobe University. She is an Australia Research Council postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of English at the University of Melbourne.

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