The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s

by Liz Conor

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253216702
• ISBN13: 9780253216700
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"