Callipygian

[Dave Monroe]

On steatopygia and the iconography thereof, see ...

Gilman, Sander.  "Black Bodies, White Bodies:
   Toward an Iconography of Female Sexuality in Late
   Nineteenth Century Art, Medicine, and Literature."
   "Race," Writing, and Difference.  Ed. Henry Louis
   Gates, Jr.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.

Also included in ...

__________.  Difference and Pathology:
   Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness.
   Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1986.

And see as well ...

Sharpley-Whiting, T. Denean.  Black Venus:
   Sexualized Savages, Primal Fears, and Primitive
   Narratives in French.  Durham, NC: Duke UP,
   1999.

Always something to be learned ...

--- Otto <o.sell at telda.net> wrote:
> from:
> Michael Quinion today's newsletter
> http://www.worldwidewords.org
> 
> 
> 2. Weird Words: Callipygian  /kalI'pIdzI at n/
> 
> Having well-shaped buttocks.
>
> Its origin is in Greek 'kallipugos', used to
> describe a famous statue of Venus; that comes from
> 'kallos', beauty (as in 'calligraphy', or
> 'callisthenics', or the lily called hemerocallis')
> plus 'puge', buttocks (which also appears in a word
> for a less comely characteristic, 'steatopygia',
> accumulation of large amounts of fat on the
> backside).



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