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	The 'Hottentot Venus'
		A, a Bushwoman (the famous 'Hottentot Venus'); B, a Korana woman; C, the external genitalia of a Bushwoman, standing upright; D. the same, of a Bushwoman lying down with the labia minora separated and turned aside.
		This is what Darwin implied in the case of Hottentot women, in whom 'the posterior part of the body projects in a wonderful manner.' He mentions the admiration felt for this peculiarity by the males of their tribe.
		This should indeed not have surprised him; for he wrote his work on sexual selection at the time when bustles were in fashion in England, and he must have realized that the women who wore them were under the impression that this change in their appearance increased their charms for members of the opposite sex.
	www.heretical.com /miscella/baker4.html (2642 words)

	Review of Hottentot Venus: A Novel
		In her novel Hottentot Venus, author Barbara Chase-Riboud tells such a story, while illuminating a life little known and unforgettable.
		Hottentot Venus is the story of Ssehura, a young Khoisan girl orphaned in 1700’s South Africa.
		The &#8220;Hottentot Venus,”; as she is becomes known, is the rage of Europe.
	www.copperfieldreview.com /reviews/hottentot_venus.html (621 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Laying The Past To Rest -- Apr. 23, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This month the preserved remains of the woman once known as the Hottentot Venus will be moved from a dark corner of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris and sent back to her birthplace.
		Hottentot was a word coined by early Dutch settlers to South Africa to describe the strange clicking language of the Khoisan.
		Even in death, the Hottentot Venus continued to titillate visitors until as recently as 1975, when her remains were moved to the museum's archives.
	time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020422-230460,00.html (938 words)

	JS Online: Ko-Thi recalls, with sense of kinship, tragic 'Hottentot Venus'
		Ferne Caulker and her Ko-Thi Dance Company will shine a light this week on the Hottentot Venus, the tragic woman at the center of one of the stranger, crueler episodes in the long history of human folly.
		"Hottentot Venus," for example, is a dance-theater piece that draws on a number of sources and styles.
		Caulker, driven by personal experience and nostalgia on one hand, a fascinating historical tragedy on the other, and a measure of outrage on both, pressed ahead on "Hottentot Venus." It will be presented this week as a work in progress.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/oct04/269663.asp (851 words)

	Hottentot Venus
		Because it is necessary to distinguish between the English and French periods of residence of the Hottentot Venus to better understand her place in the development of scientific racism in nineteenth century Europe.
		In England she was a living "curiosity" such as had been displayed since Elizabethan times, a "savage" from one of the ends of the world, demonstrating the lowest human and perhaps the highest non-human end of the Great Chain of Being.
		In France, by contrast, she was dressed in furs and accompanied by a fl servant, in the manner of an expensive courtesan.
	www.nathanielturner.com /hottentotvenus.htm (1362 words)

	JS Online: Ko-Thi tells life of 'Hottentot Venus'
		Choreographed by Ferne Yangyeitie Caulker, the company's founder and artistic and executive director, "Hottentot Venus" tells the story of a young South African woman named Ssehura, later known both as Saartji and Sarah Baartman.
		Ssehura was born in 1789 to the Khoisan tribe.
		She was taken from her tribal homeland to Europe in 1810, where she was billed as the "Hottentot Venus," and paraded - often in the nude - before audiences in London and Paris.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/arts/oct04/270725.asp (445 words)

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		The “Hottentot Venus” was exhibited in Europe as a fascinating attraction on the entertainment circuit.
		The story of the Hottentot Venus is sad, but what is even more tragic is the way this myth of the fl female body has remained in society for so long.
		The Hottentot was placed on display to satisfy the curiosity of the masses, who used her and her body as a point of departure from their idealized, virginal white woman’s body.
	www.tulane.edu /~femtheory/journals/paper10.html (874 words)

	Hottentot Venus Bibliography. Carlagirl Photo @ Carlagirl.net.
		The Venus Hottentot, Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1990.
		The Hottentot Venus; or the Hatred of Frenchwomen [a one-act "vaudeville"], premiered in Paris on 19 November 1814; length of run unknown.
		The Spectacle of the Hottentot Venus: The Thunder Thigh Revue's Women of Substance
	www.carlagirl.net /words/venbib.html (1247 words)

	RaceSci: History of Race in Science: In Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		She was the 4-foot-7-inch survivor of the slaughtered Khoikhoi people of Britain's Cape Colony (now South Africa) who, as a servant, had been lured to Europe in the early 19th century with promises of plenty.
		Her "keeper" billed her as the "Hottentot Venus" because of her exceptionally bulbous derriere and mythically large genitalia.
		With "Hottentot Venus," her fifth novel, Chase-Riboud helps escort yet another little-known but profoundly important figure out of the shroud of historical forgetting, and gives her voice.
	www.racesci.org /in_media/hottentot_venus.htm (1806 words)

	Black Issues Book Review: Hottentot Venus - Book Review
		Named by her keepers the "Hottentol Venus," thousands came to view her protruding buttocks and elongated labia--artificially enhanced by her tribe as symbols of beauty--as if she were not human.
		Her body was dissected, and her brain and the "Hottentot apron" that resulted from the stretching of her labia, placed in jars.
		In Hottentot Venus, Barbara Chase-Riboud has done for Saartjie Baartman what she earlier Sally Hemings: taken a fl woman who survives largely in mystery, myth and rumor, and through research and a compelling narrative brought her to life.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0HST/is_1_6/ai_112084316 (570 words)

	'Hottentot Venus' speaks from beyond the grave / Novel envisions tribal woman Sarah Baartman's tragic, exploited life ...
		In "Hottentot Venus," the author and part-time Paris resident portrays human degradation in new terms.
		As a piece of writing, "Hottentot Venus" illustrates how racial cruelty can be tightly wrapped in a shroud of scientific reason.
		As the Hottentot Venus encounters the "dead white men" of her day, like Voltaire, Napoleon and Darwin, the reader can follow a paper trail of evidence -- letters, diaries and ephemera -- damning them back to the library stacks.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/11/09/RV173345.DTL (943 words)

	'Hottentot Venus' welcomed home in South Africa
		CAPE TOWN, May 3 (AFP) - The remains of Saartje Baartman, known as the "Hottentot Venus", were welcomed home in South Africa from France on Friday, nearly 200 years after the African woman was first paraded in Europe as a sexual freak.
		Her Khoisan people, for whom the return of the Hottentot Venus had become a political, cultural and spiritual battle, welcomed her back home with song and a minute's silence, as a coffin draped in the South African flag was wheeled into Cape Town International Airport just before noon on Friday.
		Baartman was put on display for six years in 19th-century Britain and France as a sexual freak for her large posterior and genitalia -- a physical trait associated with the Khoisan ethnic group.
	www.namibian.com.na /2002/may/africa/025A66537E.html (660 words)

	Hottentot Venus 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In the photograph Cox's body is transformed, recalling the Hottentot Venus, with the addition of protruding metallic breasts and an accompanying metal butt extension.
		This reclaiming of the image of the Hottentot Venus is a way of exploring my own psychic identification with the image at the level of spectacle.
		I am playing with what it means to be an African diasporic artist producing and selling work in a culture that is by and large narcissistically mired in the debasement and objectification of flness.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/HottentotVenus.html (288 words)

	eBay - Book: Hottentot Venus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In Hottentot Venus, Chase-Riboud recounts the tragic life of Sarah Baartman, re-creating in vivid, shocking detail the racism and sexism at the heart of European imperialism.
		Dubbed the &#8220;Hottentot Venus,”; she was paraded naked in Piccadilly in a freak-show exhibition and subjected to the unabashed stares and crude comments of the British public, which resulted in a sensational trial for her custody by British abolitionists.
		In Hottentot Venus, Barbara Chase-Riboud evokes this strange and moving story in the voices of Baartman and her contemporaries, combining years of research with the sensitivity and perceptions of a masterful storyteller to bring the story to life.
	product.ebay.com /Hottentot-Venus_W0QQfvcsZ1388QQsoprZ30536964 (497 words)

	Jonathan Davis' Usenet Commentary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The story of Sarah Baartman, The Hottentot Venus, concerns the ritual humiliation and violation of a young African woman who was abducted to Europe in 1809 and subjected to vile humiliations and brutality.
		For 5 years she was paraded semi-naked across Europe as a sexual freak known as the 'Hottentot Venus'.
		She became the focus of both research by contemporary racial scientists (who sought to use her as "proof" of the inferiority of the African "race") and the Abolitionist movement, who saw her treatment as a graphic example of the inhumanity and brutality meted out to slaves and other 'inferior' people both in Europe and abroad.
	www.ukpoliticsmisc.org.uk /weblog/archive/2002_07_21_old.php (5326 words)

	HVweb_index.html
		In brief, the saga dates from 1810 when Sara Baartman left colonial southern Africa to seek her fortune in Europe, only to find herself billed as the "Venus Hottentot" and exhibited as an object of lascivious fascination in the street fairs and private salons of London and Paris until her death few years later.
		A full genealogy tracking the multiple permutations of the Venus Hottentot's image would readily disclose its cultural and political resilience up to the present.
		The figure of Sara Baartman, portrayed more infamously as Hottentot Venus, became a pervasive icon representing Western perceptions of the essence of the colonial fl female's exotic sexualized Otherness.
	www.west.asu.edu /koptiuch/HVweb_index.html (471 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Hottentot Venus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Hottentot Venus is a wonderful work of historical fiction by Barbara Chase-Riboud surrounding the exploitation and short life of Saartjie “Sarah” Baartman.
		A distortion on the image of Venus as the goddess of love and beauty, Saartijie was heralded as the missing link between man and apes – thus propelling her as an atrocity to be gawked upon, repulsed and pitied by Victorian England and France.
		Saartjie’s experience in England lands her in a famous legal case in which abolitionists took her “partners” to court insisting that Saartjie was enslaved and working against her will.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0385508565 (472 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| 'Hottentot Venus' goes home
		The remains of an African woman who was paraded around Europe as a freak and scientific curiosity have been handed back to the South African Government in a symbolic gesture of reconciliation by France.
		The skeleton and bottled organs of Saarti Baartman - who was known as the "Hottentot Venus" for her pronounced buttocks and genitals - were handed over to the South African ambassador in a ceremony in Paris on Friday, ending a long battle for her return.
		Baartman was born in 1789 into the Khoisan tribe of hunter-gatherers who lived in the southernmost tip of Africa and were also known as Hottentots, which is now considered a derogatory and offensive term.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1957240.stm (501 words)

	PLAYAHATA.COM - Nelly's Apple Bottom of Century June 7th, 2004
		Sara Baartman, "the Hottentot Venus", was born in 1789.
		She was working as a servant in Cape Town when she was noticed by British ship's doctor William Dunlop, who persuaded her to travel with him to England.
		Several prints dating from the early nineteenth century illustrate the sensation generated by the spectacle of "The Hottentot Venus." A French print entitled "La Belle Hottentot," for example, depicts the South African woman standing with her buttocks exposed on a box-like pedestal.
	www.playahata.com /pages/papi/applebottom.htm (1888 words)

	Hottentot Venus, Vagina Dentata Bibliography/Discussion
		I want to find some reading material to assign students, most of whom are, I have found, not particularly skilled readers, about Sarah B?, the so-called Hottentot Venus, an African woman who was displayed as a curiosity in Europe, and about the idea of the "vagina dentata" or vagina with teeth.
		Gould, Stephen Jay "The Hottentot Venus", in his collection of essays The Flamingo Smile: Reflections in Natural History (NY, W.W. Norton and Co): 291-301.
		The so-called "Hottentot Venus" was a southern African woman named Saartjie Baartman.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /~women/bibs/venus.html (764 words)

	Hottentots on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Francois-Xavier Fauvelle-Aymar, L'Invention du Hottentot : histoire du regard occidental sur les Khoisan (XVe-XIXe siecle).
		Envisioning the Worst: Representations of "Hottentots" in Early Modern England.
		Le cercueil contenant les restes de la vénus hottentote entouré d'officiels uSAFRICA-BAARTMAN-HOTTENTOT VENUS Les obsèques.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-H1ottentots.asp (244 words)

	Biographies of Special South Africans - Saartjie Baartman
		But the only success she achieved was as an exhibit before the general public.
		Called The Hottentot Venus or Hatred to French Women, the drama encapsulated the complex of racial prejudice and sexual fascination that occupied European perceptions of aboriginal people at the time.
		It appears Baartman worked as a prostitute in Paris and drank heavily to cope with the humiliation she was subjected to.
	zar.co.za /baartman.htm (992 words)

	@forums - France returns 'Hottentot Venus' to South Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		PARIS (Reuters) -- In an emotional ceremony, France on Monday officially returned to South Africa the remains of a young woman who was a freak show attraction in the 19th century.
		The skeleton, brain and sexual organs of Saartjie Baartman, exhibited in Britain and France as the "Hottentot Venus," were handed over at a ceremony at the South African embassy that capped years of negotiations between the two countries.
		With a display of South African music and dance, officials opened two wooden crates holding the remains and a plaster cast of Baartman's body, previously exhibited at a Paris museum, and then draped a colorful flag on one in what an official likened to a burial ceremony.
	www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=129773 (523 words)

	Hottentot Venus by Freddy Frankel Review
		Hottentot Venus by Freddy Frankel, Reviewed by Doug Holder.
		Since I met Fred he has gone on to win the New England Writers Robert Penn Warren Award, and his poetry has appeared in THE ICONOCLAST, THE LARCOM REVIEW, CONCHO RIVER REVIEW, and other magazines.
		In this chap, Hottentot Venus, Frankel writes stunning poetry about coming-of-age in South Africa.
	www.webspawner.com /users/jrprmarrevdholder2 (322 words)

	Human Exhibition
		Baartman, who became known as the Hottentot Venus, was brought to Europe from Cape Town in 1810 by an English ship's surgeon who wished to publicly exhibit the woman's steatopygia, her enlarged buttocks.
		Her physique, particularly her steatopygic appendage, became the object of popular fascination when Baartman was exhibited naked in a cage at Piccadilly, England.
		Both forms of spectacle often served to promote Western colonial domination by configuring non-white cultures as being in need of discipline, civilization, and industry.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Exhibition.html (713 words)

	The Life and Times of Sara Baartman
		THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SARA BAARTMAN is the fascinating story of this Khoi Khoi woman who was taken from South Africa, and then exhibited as a freak across Britain.
		The image and idea of "The Hottentot Venus" swept through British popular culture.
		A court battle waged by abolitionists to free her from her exhibitors failed.
	www.frif.com /new99/hottento.html (589 words)

	Moviefone: The Life and Times of Sara Baartman: The Hottentot Venus Movie
		Moviefone: The Life and Times of Sara Baartman: The Hottentot Venus Movie
		Citation: Neil Parsons, "Review of The Life and Times of Sara Baartman, the Hottentot Venus," H-SAfrica, H-Net Reviews, December,...
		The Life and Times of Sara Baartman: the Hottentot Venus.
	movies.channel.aol.com /movie/main.adp?mid=1217910 (206 words)

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