Sunday, May 11, 2008

Dartmouth's gutsy 'Black Womanhood' probes old wounds - Boston Globe (Clothing for men)

HANOVER, N.H. - In 1810, an English ship's surgeon brought Saartjie Baartman, a young South African woman, to London. She was displayed on stage and made to squat to show her genitals. After she died in 1816, her brain, skeleton, and genitals went on