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The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s

The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s

Conor, Liz

Paperback

General SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0253216702
ISBN13: 9780253216700
Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips)
Published: Jun 1 2004
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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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