The Life and times of Sara Baartman [electronic resource] : "The Hottentot Venus" / Dominant 7 ... [et al.] present ; a film by Zola Maseko ; produced by Philip Brooks and Harriet Gavshon ; directed by Zola Maseko.

Brooklyn, NY : Icarus Films, c1998.

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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.

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English; French

October 30, 2018

Narration written by Christian Docin-Julien ; camera, Giulio Biccari ; editor, Lise Beaulieu ; original music composed by Pops Mohamed, performed by Pops Mohamed and Gloria Bosman.

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