This striking ornament of nature

The ‘native belle’ in the Australian colonial scene

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4367336
AutoresLiz Conor (0000-0003-4516-8379, The University of Melbourne, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen7
Número2
Páginas197-218
Fecha de publicación2006-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700106064420
OpenAlexW2061922455
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas19

Feminine beauty was implicated in colonial ways of seeing Indigenous peoples. The Australian 'Native Belle', as the feminine type of the noble savage, caught the European imagination at the time that European women such as Mary Wollstonecraft inaugurated a critique of feminine beauty as enslaving. Representations of the native belle were disseminated through new forms of communication and were implicated in prevailing discourses of Indigenous peoples such as ethnology. The native belle demonstrates a European longing for feminine beauty that was natural and unaffected. This type also demonstrates that ideas of visual identity as manifest in feminine beauty were important descriptors of racial difference

Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Beauty · Biology · Colonialism · Ethnology · Indigenous · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Ecology