Hottentot Venus

From: Black Issues Book Review | Date: January 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Hottentot Venus by Barbara Chase-Riboud Doubleday, November 2003 $24.00, ISBN 0-385-50856-5 Those arc the tacts as we know them: In 1810, a woman from Southern Africa's Khoisan tribe was brought to England by two white men and put on display in a freak show at 225 Piccadilly, London. Named by her keepers the "Hottentot 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.

Scientists of the day called her the "missing link" between ape and man. Gawked at, taunted, and abused by hundreds of ...

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