The Mismeasure of a Woman - Review of The Hottentot Venus UNTOLD

The Mismeasure of a Woman - Review of The Hottentot Venus UNTOLD

Review of The Hottentot Venus UNTOLD Written, Created, and Performed by Jacqui Du Toit   Saartjie (Sarah) Baartman was an Indigenous woman taken from her home in South Africa in the early 19th century to be put on display in human zoos of the Victorian era. The word “Hottentot” is a racist colonial term for a community in South Africa known as Khoi’san. But she was and is widely known as the “Hottentot venus” for the way she was sexually a…