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ItemThe flapper's ontological ambivalence: prosthetic visualities, the feminine and modernityCONOR, LIZ (Department of History, University of Melbourne, 1997)In this article, I want to discuss modernity's particular scopic conditions through the concept of prosthetic visualities – or vision extended through industrialised and popularised communication technologies – and their cultural attachment to the feminine. While these visual forms were characteristic of the shared experiences of modernity throughout Western nations, through both its modes of production and modes of self-representation, I focus on the particular meanings these assumed in Australia – for example with its anxieties about national boundaries projected onto the feminine – while retaining a view of modernity's common perceptual field. I hope to set out the possible relationship of women to the visual conditions as mobile spectacles and as subjects who acted through appearing. My argument is that appearing was constructed as a subject position for some women, particularly young, white women, through the conditions of their visibility in modernity.
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ItemKate Fischer, John Howard and shrinking voices in the field of social actionCONOR, LIZ (School of English, La Trobe University, 1997)At a public forum hosted by Derryn Hinch for Channel 9, I found myself inadvertently wrestling with Kate Fischer over the role of the public intellectual. Kate was part of a panel which included Sam Newman and the Cappers, called in and dressed up to discuss 'The Battle of the Sexes' with a studio audience, amongst whom were seated various advocates for the feminist and men's movements.