I – Sarah Baartman and the Politics of Looking “The expropriation and appropriation of Sarah Baartman by the colonial and capitalist gaze has lasted long enough. It is not a good idea to create new images of her‚ because each new image repeats and continues the past exploitation and humiliation of her body.” In the article The arena of imaginings: Sarah Bartmann and the ethics of representation‚ Rosemarie Buikema looks into the controversy around Willie Bester’s statue of Sarah Baartman
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Jocelyn Iyman History Discursive Essay: To what extent did Sarah Baartman’s life illustrate the differences between the Khoisan and Europeans? Grade 10 16 august 2013 (draft) Sarah Baartman’s life showed the extent differences between the Khoisan people and the Europeans‚ in the factors of land ownership‚ religion‚ and their respect for others‚ their social‚ the role of women as well as the way they entertained in society. Between the Khoikhoi‚ San and Europeans there was a vast difference
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Separate standards Representations of Sarah Baartman marked a new tendency toward linking the savage to raw sexuality (Abrahams‚ 1998: 227). Baartman‚“The Hottentot Venus” was representative of primitive sexuality and ugliness. She became an icon of the commodification of the female black body and the exploitation of female black sexuality (Ruiz‚ 2013: 137). Fascination with Baartman stemmed from the stark difference of her body from the standard body shape that was expectant of woman in Britain
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Rosemarie Parse‚ from her early years in nursing‚ has searched for a new or different way to learn and practice nursing. Her belief was that humans co-write their own health and that nurses do not control a person’s health choices. Her focus was on the experiences that a person lives and the view that person has of their health. She has authored‚ coauthored and edited texts that have played a huge role in nursing disciplines. She is the founder and editor of the journal Nursing Science Quarterly
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Sara Baartman known in Europe as the Hottentot Venus‚ also as Saartje‚ Sartjee and Sarah Bartmann was born on the South African frontier in the 1770s. She lived nearly three decades in South Africa and spent five years in Europe before dying in Paris at the end of 1815. She lived and was displayed in Europe during an era of exploration and inquiry: Europe was entombed in science and more prominently in the Western imagining of women‚ race and sexuality Europeans scientists and Baartman’s captors
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As recently as January‚ 2016 the name of Saartjie Baartman has moved from 19th century curiosity‚ into popular 21st century culture‚ and this reason for her notoriety stems from the sexualization of her body. Baartman was born before 1790 in the area now known as the Eastern Cape of Africa‚ and was a member of the cattle herding Gonaquasub group of the Khoikhoi. Growing up on the colonial farm where her parents worked‚ Sara was orphaned in adolescence. At age sixteen‚ she married a Khoikhoi drummer
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the genitalia Baartman had to struggle to keep covered these men and women are plastering over their own music album covers. So unfortunately after the exposure of Baartman to the white men of 18th century Europe an obsession began and her history has been warped in a way that the white men are still to get what they desire by advocating the parading of black women as a positive empowering thing. Among talks that are held in our classroom daily‚ it is realized that the past of Baartman has a strong
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Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman was born in 1789 in South Africa’s Eastern Cape (Parkinson). Her mother died when Sara was two years-old‚ and she eventually grew up on a colonial farm where her family likely served as servants ("Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman"). When Baartman was an adolescent‚ her father and husband both died in a European-led ambush (Elkins). As a result of colonial expansion‚ the Dutch came into contact with Baartman’s community ("Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman"). She was then sold as a slave to
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Thomson‚ Rosemarie Garland. Extraordinary bodies: Figuring physical disability in American culture and literature. Columbia University Press‚ 1997. Print. In this article‚ Rosemarie Thomson criticizes on the way physically disabled people are treated in the context of culture. Her main claim is that the socially contextualized view of disability has attributed misrepresentations to people with extraordinary bodies. The first sub-claim is that the identification of “disability” is based on cultural
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Question 1 Q - Interviewer (Alexander Martin) A - Rosemarie Alecio Q - You’re listening to Roads of Adventure with Alexander Martin‚ and today‚ folks‚ we have with us a very special guest: Rosemarie Alecio! A - Hi‚ everybody! It’s wonderful to be here today. Q - Now‚ if you weren’t aware‚ Rosemarie here just came back from her trip to the – wait for it – Andes Mountains! Now‚ Rosemarie‚ can you tell us what you hoped to experience in the Andes? A - Well‚ the Andes have always been on my bucket
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