HIS393H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Masculinity, Yellow Fever
Document Summary
The body is an identity that is constituted within time and space. Its appearance in the world is not predetermined by essence. Embodiment refers to the ways men and women experience their bodies differently. Hottentot venus sarah bartmann was constructed as "savage" because her body. This study reveals how race, gender, and the body was conceptualized and less about the person themselves. Selling stories would use slave holder"s fantasies in order to sell them. Power to shape the slave body to sell them. Attention to presentation: brushed and polished, organized by sex. Slaves were packed into racial categories by their skin colour. What the refer to the biology of the body. Some were more black and some were less black. The blackess slaves were the healthiest and the strongest. Lighter skin slaves were favoured for labour of the home. Slaves were dressed, sexualized, racialized and narrated to promote their saleability.
