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Title:

The life and times of Sara Baartman [videorecording] : "The Hottentot Venus" / a film by Zola Maseko ; [present] Dominant 7, Mail & Guardian Television, France 3 and SABC 2.

Format:

[videorecording] :

Publisher:

First Run/Icarus Films,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

1 videocassette (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Baartman, Sara,--d. 1815.
Khoikhoi (African people)--Biography.
Women, Black--South Africa--History--19th century.
Indigenous peoples--Exhibitions.
Human beings--Exhibitions.
Exhibitions--Great Britain.
Somatotypes--Europe--History--19th century.
Racism--Europe--History--19th century.
Racism in anthropology--Europe--History--19th century.
Racism in popular culture--Europe--History--19th century.
Body, Human--Social aspects--Africa.
Body, Human--Social aspects--Europe.
Documentary films.
Race relations in motion pictures.
Women in motion pictures.
Africa--History--History--19th century.

Other Authors:

Maseko, Zola, 1967-
Brooks, Philip.
Gavshon, Harriet.
Tobias, Phillip V.
Fauvelle, Francois-Xavier.
Abrahams, Yvette.
Martin, Steve.
Daubney, Brian.
Docin-Julien, Christian.
Dominant 7 (Firm)
Mail & Guardian Television.
Société nationale de programme France-Régions.
South African Broadcasting Corporation.
First Run/Icarus Films.

Notes:

Commentary: Phillip Tobias, Francois-Xavier Fauvelle, Yvette Abrahams, Steve Martin, Brian Daubney. Voices, Zola Maseko, Adrian Brown, Hlengiwe Farasani.

Summary:

A documentary film of the life a Khoikhoi woman who was taken from South Africa in 1810 and exhibited as a freak across Britain. The image and ideas for "The Hottentot Venus" (particularly the interest in her sexual anatomy) swept through British popular culture. A court battle waged by abolitionists to free her from her exhibitors failed. In 1814, a year before her death, she was taken to France and became the object of scientific research that formed the bedrock of European ideas about black female sexuality.

OCLC:

(OCoLC)42139617
(OCoLC)42053448

Locations:

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)