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  2. Sarah Baartman - Wikipedia

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    Sarah Baartman (Afrikaans: [ˈsɑːra ˈbɑːrtman]; c. 1789 – 29 December 1815), also spelled Sara, sometimes in the diminutive form Saartje (Afrikaans pronunciation:), or Saartjie, and Bartman, Bartmann, was a Khoekhoe woman who was exhibited as a freak show attraction in 19th-century Europe under the name Hottentot Venus, a name that was later attributed to at least one other woman ...

  3. How Sarah Baartman's hips went from a symbol of exploitation ...

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    Sarah Baartman was an international sensation of objectification. British LibraryIn “BLACK EFFECT,” a track from Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s 2018 collaborative album “EVERYTHING IS LOVE ...

  4. Why Are We So Obsessed with Butts? - AOL

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    ESQUIRE: The book opens with the story of Sarah Baartman. You write, "The story of Sarah Baartman is important not only as a troubling tale of a large-butted woman who was mistreated in the early ...

  5. Elongated labia - Wikipedia

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    Closeup of enlarged labia, standing. Elongated labia (also known as sinus pudoris or macronympha, [1] and colloquially as khoikhoi apron or hottentot apron) is a feature of certain Khoekhoe and other African women [citation needed] who develop, whether naturally or through artificial stretching, relatively elongated labia minora, which may hang up to 10 centimetres (4 in) outside the rest of ...

  6. Bustle - Wikipedia

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    The bustle has been linked to Sarah Baartman by feminist scholars such as Anne Fausto-Sterling. [6] [7] Baartman, a Khoikhoi woman from South Africa, was featured as a circus attraction in Europe in the early 1800s, due to the particular abundance of tissue on her buttocks. [8] This phenotype is called steatopygia.

  7. Evelynn M. Hammonds - Wikipedia

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    She dates the earliest records of these definitions in the early 19th century with Sarah Baartman as the "Hottentot Venus". [13] This was a black woman who was put on display and seen as vulgar because she had larger anatomical body parts than those of her white counterparts.

  8. Sexualization - Wikipedia

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    Black women's bodies are either invisible or hypervisible. In the 1800s, a South African woman named Sarah Baartman was known as "Hottentot Venus" and her body was paraded around in London and Paris where they looked at her exotic features such as large breasts and behind. Her features were deemed lesser and over sexual.

  9. Celebrities with weird body parts - AOL

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    Celebrities with weird body parts. Melissa Henderson. Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:15 PM. Celebrities With Weird Body Parts.