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The “Batty” Politic: Toward an Aesthetic of the Black Female Body
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 March 2020
Abstract
I assess representations of black women's derrieres, which are often depicted as grotesque, despite attempts by some black women artists to create a black feminist aesthetic that recognizes the black female body as beautiful and desirable. Utilizing a black feminist disability theory, I revisit the history of the Hottentot Venus, which contributed to the shaping of this representational trope, and I identify a recurring struggle among these artists to recover the “unmirrored” black female body.
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- Research Article
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- Hypatia , Volume 18 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Women, Art, and Aesthetics , Fall Winter 2003 , pp. 87 - 105
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- Copyright © 2003 by Hypatia, Inc.
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