WGS340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Connotation, Hypersexuality, Intersectionality
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Examples of how black women"s bodies have been perceived. Video she uploaded the video after she won the wimbledon 2015 games as a way to reclaim herself and her sexuality. Not fitting the standard; not pretty, too masculine. Black women have never had a chance to share their stories or have control of themselves. All of them took control of how their bodies are perceived. Article by musser on the objectification of the body. In hammonds article, on page 177-178, addressing "silence" need to explain this. Black women"s bodies itself became a sight of labour. Black women needed to produce children that will in return work on the land. Sarah was a slaved woman and was sold from a french country in africa and brought to europe. Put on display because of how her physical body looked. She was constantly resold many times for scientists. Sarah"s body was dissected into many pieces in a form of "research"