Pamela. Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus. New Jersey: Princeton University Press‚ 2010. Crais and Scully‚ have meticulously and skillfully pieced together the life and times of Sara or Sartjee Baartman. The Authors have given us insight as to whom Sara Baartman the Gonaqua woman was opposed to the Hottentot Venus that she was worldly famous for. For centuries Sara Baartman has embodied westerner’s ideologies of the primitive‚ savage‚ and uncivilized Africans. The ghost of Sara Baartman will
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Cultural Studies 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
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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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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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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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Sara Lee Retrenchment Case 1. What is Sara Lee’s corporate strategy? How has its retrenchment strategy changed the nature of its business lineup? The Sara Lee Corporation decided to sell 8 businesses that had been targeted as non-strategic. They decided to concentrate on the grocery portion of their businesses and also their single serve coffee line because they believed it to be very profitable and to continue to become more profitable as the trend caught on to use single serve coffee machines
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| Sara Lee Corporation SWOT Analysis | MGMT 303 Spring Session B | | William Bannier | 5/3/2009 | | SARA LEE CORPORATION HISTORY In 1935 Charles Lubin‚ along with his brother-in-law‚ opened up a string of bakeries called Community Bake Shops. Charles had a stronger entrepreneurial drive than his brother-in-law so in 1949 the two parted ways and Charles renamed the company to the Kitchens of Sara Lee after his eight year old daughter. (Sara Lee Our History) The company was
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Sara Lee Corporation (Case study) 1. Executive Summary This case study provides an evaluation of Sara Lee Corporation and particularly its operations of product lines available through the Wal-Mart stores. To begin with‚ an effective SWOT analysis of the company was conducted where strengths and opportunities are identified while addressing possible threats and improving its weaknesses to avoid giving the competition an aggressive advantage. Marketing requires effective identification
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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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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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