Which bodies matter? Feminism, poststructuralism, race, and the curious theoretical Odyssey of the "Hottentot Venus"

Research and criticism of dominant feminist analyses of the “Hottentot Venus". Anatomy of the "other" is the source of negative representations of black sexuality. Alternative way of understanding the construction of Black women in colonial discourse.

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