The ‘Piccaninny’: racialized childhood, disinheritance, acquisition and child beauty

Peddling prejudice:A Series of Twelve Profile Portraits of Aborigines of New South Wales

“…In an article on images of the piccaninny, Liz O'Connor discusses the recycling of images and argues that the process led to the erasure of Aboriginal identity and the replacement of a kind of group identification. 38 While she is dealing with a very different form of imagery, of the carefree and joyous Aboriginal child, there are parallels with the prints under discussion here. In the case of the Nicholas/Barlow Profiles of the Aborigines of New South Wales, the group identification becomes that of the outcast drunk.…”

Introduction: theorising fashion media

“…Examining the site's 'man-repelling' ethos, which is ostensibly about styling women's bodies in ways that refuse or divest from a male gaze, White finds that underneath the site's satirical tone and professed commitment to feminism lies a restatement of women's bodies as violable objects whose worth turns on their sexual desirability. Pollak's study of the satirical J. Peterman catalogue likewise brings to the fore a set of desiccated tropes of gendered bodiesas straightforwardly legible cultural 'types' (Conor, 2012(Conor, , 2013(Conor, , 2015 that is notable for its stasis. While the catalogue content that Pollak examines is more ambiguous and potentially more open to resignification than the bodies presented in Russh or Man Repeller, it underscores a connection to a long history of fashion media trading in static images of women's bodies.…”