Black Venus 2010: They Called Her Hottentot

by Deborah Willis

Book Overview

As a young South African woman of about twenty, Saartjie Baartman, the so-called "Hottentot Venus," was brought to London and placed on exhibit in 1810. Clad in the Victorian equivalent of a body stocking, and paraded through the streets and on stage in a cage she became a human spectacle in London and Paris. Baartman's distinctive physique became the object of ridicule, curiosity, scientific inquiry, and desire until and after her premature death...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439902054
• ISBN13: 9781439902059
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.1" x 10.0"