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Female Freaks: Sex, Science & Sideshow

An Illustrated Lecture with Writer and Sideshow Performer Ilise Carter

The display of the female body has long been a source of both fascination and controversy, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the exhibition of radically different bodies. In Female Freaks: Sex, Science & Sideshow, performer and writer Ilise “The Lady Aye” Carter examines what is to be a natural-born or self-made freak in a female body. Ranging from famous and infamous examples such as Sara Baartman, the “Hottentot Venus” in the eighteenth century to Betty Broadbent, the tattooed lady, in the twentieth, this talk will examine how, why and where the commercial showing of women’s bodies becomes a vessel for the fears, fascinations and fetishes of different historical eras.











When: Thu., Jul. 21, 2016 at 7:00 pm
Where: Morbid Anatomy Museum
424 Third Ave. Brooklyn

Price: $8
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An Illustrated Lecture with Writer and Sideshow Performer Ilise Carter

The display of the female body has long been a source of both fascination and controversy, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the exhibition of radically different bodies. In Female Freaks: Sex, Science & Sideshow, performer and writer Ilise “The Lady Aye” Carter examines what is to be a natural-born or self-made freak in a female body. Ranging from famous and infamous examples such as Sara Baartman, the “Hottentot Venus” in the eighteenth century to Betty Broadbent, the tattooed lady, in the twentieth, this talk will examine how, why and where the commercial showing of women’s bodies becomes a vessel for the fears, fascinations and fetishes of different historical eras.

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