The life and times of Sara Baartman [videorecording] : "The Hottentot Venus" / Dominant 7 ... [et al.] present ; a film by Zola Maseko ; produced by Philip Brooks and Harriet Gavshon ; directed by Zola Maseko.
Originally produced in 1998. 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)62348900
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.