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In The Spectacular Modern Woman, Liz Conor illustrates how technologicaladvances in image reproduction transformed Western industrial societies into visualor "ocularcentric" cultures with significant and complex consequences forwomen's lives. With the rise of mass media, photography, and movies, a woman'svisibility became a mark of her modernity, and the result was at once liberating andconfining, given the many narrow conceptions of what it m...

Skin Deep looks at the preoccupations of European-Australians in their encounters with Aboriginal women and the tropes, types, and perceptions that seeped into everyday settler-colonial thinking. Early erroneous and uninformed accounts of Aboriginal women and culture were repeated throughout various print forms and imagery, both in Australia and in Europe, with names, dates, and locations erased so that individual women came to be anonymized a...