ABSTRACT This article analyses representations of deodorising products in Australian women's magazines from 1880 to 1940 to examine how women were encouraged to fear their own smells and mistrust their own bodies. I argue that the transition to modernity witnessed a reduction in olfactory tolerance that fell along class and gender lines. Smells were imbued with new cultural meanings that served to reinforce women's subordinate status and to pathologise women's bodies on the supposed eve of their emancipation. As public space was increasingly democratised, smell was invoked to police social divisions and to render them culturally intelligible. As such, this article brings feminist history and the history of sexuality into dialogue with the history of the senses to redirect scholarly attention to the politics of smell. It also challenges dominant interpretations of modernity that emphasise the primacy of the visual.

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性气味：嗅觉、现代性和女性身体的调节 1880-1940（或女性如何开始害怕自己的气味）

摘要 本文分析了 1880 年至 1940 年澳大利亚女性杂志中除臭产品的表现，以研究女性如何被鼓励害怕自己的气味和不信任自己的身体。我认为，向现代性的过渡见证了嗅觉容忍度的下降，这下降了阶级和性别的界限。气味充满了新的文化意义，有助于强化女性的从属地位，并在她们所谓的解放前夕病态化女性的身体。随着公共空间日益民主化，气味被用来控制社会分裂，并使它们在文化上易于理解。因此，本文将女权主义历史和性史与感官历史进行对话，将学术注意力转向嗅觉政治。