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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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Modern Girl as Heuristic Device: Collaboration, Connective Comparison, Multidirectional Citation -- The Modern Girl Around the World: Cosmetics Advertising and the Politics of Race and Style -- From the Washtub to the World: Madam C. J. Walker and the ''Re-creation'' of Race Womanhood, 1900-1935 -- Making the Modern Girl French: From New Woman to Éclaireuse -- The Modern Girl and Racial Respectability in 1930s South Africa -- Racial Masquerade: Consumption and Contestation of American Modernity -- All-Consuming Nationalism: The Indian Modern Girl in the 1920s and 1930s -- The Dance Class or the Working Class: The Soviet Modern Girl -- Who Is Afraid of the Chinese Modern Girl? -- ''Blackfella Missus Too Much Proud'': Techniques of Appearing, Femininity, and Race in Australian Modernity -- The ''Modern Girl'' Question in the Periphery of Empire: Colonial Modernity and Mobility among Okinawan Women in the 1920s and 1930s -- Contesting Consumerisms in Mass Women's Magazines -- Buying In: Advertising and the Sexy Modern Girl Icon in Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s -- Fantasies of Universality? Neue Frauen, Race, and Nation in Weimar and Nazi Germany -- concluding commentaries -- Girls Lean Back Everywhere -- After the Grand Tour: The Modern Girl, the New Woman, and the Colonial Maiden -- The Modern Girl and Commodity Culture -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index