This striking ornament of nature

The ‘native belle’ in the Australian colonial scene

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4367336
AutoresLiz Conor (0000-0003-4516-8379, The University of Melbourne, autor correspondente)
Ano2006
Volume7
Fascículo2
Páginas197-218
Data de publicação2006-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1464700106064420
OpenAlexW2061922455
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências 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