'Reading' The Black Body: Or, Considering my Grandmother's hair.

[Cecilia E. Ford]

Ok. So it is not another article I was looking for but within the reiview of _The Black Body_ (cited in my earlier message) are many essays beyond the account of Baartman's history.  There is an array of perspectives 

examination of biracial manhood
good hair...
"the international pastime of gazing at black bodies and comparing them to white ones"

Cecilia E. Ford
Professor of English and Sociology
University of Wisconsin-Madison

UW Interaction Interest Group (UWIIG):   http://uwiig.blogspot.com/

Ford website:   http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~ceford/



http://www.feelyourboobies.com/how2.htm

Be GREEN, keep it on the SCREEN
          

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cecilia E. Ford" <ceford at WISC.EDU>
Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:14 am
Subject: Re: [GALA-L] Language, gender and the body
To: GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG

> Just came across a couple of book reviews. Only one I can find at the 
> moment. Might relate.
> It is in the spring 2010 issue of Bitch magazine:
> 
> p 58
> 
> Book: The Black Body
> Meri Nana-Ama Danquah. Ed.
> 
> Essays about Saartjie Bartman "a South African slave better know at 
> the Hotentot Venus....a twentysomething when she was exhibited like a 
> circus animal for Europeans because her bett was so large, 
> comparatively speaking..."  This is a cllection of exxays. I ahve not 
> read it, but they note that she only received a proper burial in her 
> native country in 2002.
> 
> I will find the other article.
> 
> Ceci
> 
> Cecilia E. Ford
> Professor of English and Sociology
> University of Wisconsin-Madison
> 
> UW Interaction Interest Group (UWIIG):   http://uwiig.blogspot.com/
> 
> Ford website:   http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~ceford/
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.feelyourboobies.com/how2.htm
> 
> Be GREEN, keep it on the SCREEN
>           
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Laura Coffey <L.Coffey at HUD.AC.UK>
> Date: Saturday, March 20, 2010 4:21 am
> Subject: Re: [GALA-L] Language, gender and the body
> To: GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> 
> > Hi Jane
> > 
> > Have you seen Lesley Jeffries' 'Textual Constructions of the Female 
> 
> > Body' (2007)? She looks at representations of the female body in UK 
> 
> > women's magazines from a critical discourse analytic perspective, 
> > which might be useful to you.
> > 
> > Best wishes
> > Laura
> > 
> > 
> > Miss Laura Coffey
> > PhD student in English Language
> > School of Music, Humanities and Media
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> > ________________________________________
> > From: International Gender and Language Association 
> > [GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of Sunderland, Jane [j.sunderland at LANCASTER.AC.UK]
> > Sent: 19 March 2010 21:45
> > To: GALA-L at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG
> > Subject: [GALA-L] Language, gender and the body
> > 
> > I’m involved in the planning of a research project on ‘Language, 
> > gender and the body’ which will look at understandings of ‘body 
> > identities’ (e.g. the reproductive body,  the mutilated body) in 
> > different cultural contexts. Can anyone suggest references here? 
> > (beyond Butler’s ‘Bodies that Matter’). There’s a lot of stuff on 
> > ‘gender and the body’, and Wendy Harcourt’s ‘Body Politics in 
> > Development’ looks particularly relevant, but we’re looking for work 
> 
> > with a particular language/discourse focus.
> > 
> > Suggestions much appreciated. If they come flooding in, I’ll collate 
> 
> > and post them on the List.
> > 
> > Best wishes to all
> > 
> > Jane Sunderland
> > 
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