WSTC21H3 Lecture Notes - Khoikhoi, San People, Human Sexuality
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Lecture 3: the social construction of human sexuality and the construction of normal and abnormal. June 1810: slave trade was abolished in england 3 years prior: most blacks in england walked the middle line of slavery and servitude or even beggary, the ,main goal was to make a profit of sarah baartman. Sold to the man henrik cezar: baartman thought to be a freak b/c of her large buttocks and varied in figure from englishwomen and also from women in neighboring isles of. England: piccadily= popular entertainment arena and freak shows were the biggest attractions. 225 piccadily street= sarah baartman is exhibited : court case forwarded on grounds of abuse against baartman undertaken by abolishment movement. The conquering of racial bodies through capitalist expansion. Positivist approaches and the objective approaches and apply scientific spin to justify expansion and exploitation. The linkage b/w european science and colonialism: deeming european science superior to colonial bodies, african body (baartman) for research.