Acknowledgments 
Prologue: The Venus Hottentot (1825) Elizabeth Alexander 
Introduction: The Notion of Venus Deborah Willis

PART I: Sarah Baartman in Context 
1. The Hottentot and the Prostitute: Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality Sander Gilman 
2. Another Means of Understanding the Gaze: Sarah Bartmann in the Development of Nineteenth-Century French National Identity Robin Mitchell 
3. Which Bodies Matter? Feminism, Post-Structuralism, Race, and the Curious Theoretical Odyssey of the “Hottentot Venus” Zine Magubane 
4. Exhibit A: Private Life without a Narrative J. Yolande Daniels 
5. crucifix Holly Bass

PART II: Sarah Baartman’s Legacy in Art and Art History 
6. Historic Retrievals: Confronting Visual Evidence and the Imaging of Truth Lisa Gail Collins 
7. Reclaiming Venus: The Presence of Sarah Bartmann in Contemporary Art Debra S. Singer 
8. Playing with Venus: Black Women Artists and the Venus Trope in Contemporary Visual Art Kianga K. Ford 
9. Talk of the Town Manthia Diawara 
10. The “Hottentot Venus” in Canada: Modernism, Censorship, and the Racial Limits of Female Sexuality Charmaine Nelson 
11. A.K.A. Saartjie: The “Hottentot Venus” in Context (Some Recollections and a Dialogue), 1998/2004 Kellie Jones 
12. little sarah Linda Susan Jackson

PART III: Sarah Baartman and Black Women as Public Spectacle 
13. The Greatest Show on Earth: For Saartjie Baartman, Joice Heth, Anarcha of Alabama, Truuginini, and Us All Nikky Finney 
14. The Imperial Gaze: Venus Hottentot, Human Display, and World’s Fairs Michele Wallace 
15. Cinderella Tours Europe Cheryl Finley 
16. Mirror Sisters: Aunt Jemima as the Antonym/Extension of Saartjie Bartmann Michael D. Harris 
17. My Wife as Venus E. Ethelbert Miller

PART IV: Iconic Women in the Twentieth Century/b> 
18. agape Holly Bass 
19. Black/Female/Bodies Carnivalized in Spectacle and Space Carole Boyce Davies 
20. Sighting the “Real” Josephine Baker: Methods and Issues of Black Star Studies Terri Francis 
21. The Hoodrat Theory William Jelani Cobb

Epilogue: I’ve Come to Take You Home (Tribute to Sarah Bartmann Written in Holland, June 1998) 
Bibliography 
Contributors 
Index