Women's Studies 2250E Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Conjoined Twins, Emancipation Proclamation, Voyeurism

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2250E
• Professor: n/a

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Specifically, no more pelvic exams by groups of white men poking and prodding at their most intimate areas: from that day forth, with one notable exception, the mckoys would only allow themselves to be examined while clothed. This decision provoked strong reactions from doctors in the. Rather, his article is devoted to describing his minute and invasive examinations of the. In later years, the mckoys, who never married, supported the african american community in. Columbus county, north carolina, until their deaths in 1912. 2002: bartmann"s display intersected with a larger context of exploitation, as (cid:498)one key feature about the treatment of black women in the nineteenth century was how their bodies were objects of display. Bartmann"s unclothed body have circulated in the academic realm: as yvette abrahams points out, these images continue to be reproduced despite bartmann"s well-documented resistance to being examined or photographed naked, thus, in jean.