1. Does "an invisible counterfoil against which the white female body could be objectified as idealised" mean "an invisible phenomenon against which the white female body could be objectified as an ideal"?
2. Does "tropes pictured so cogently in Manet’s Olympia, 1863" in the last line of the following text mean "a good example of which is Manet’s Olympia, 1863"?
3. Does "as an object which denied her a place to look and desire on her own terms" mean "as an object which did not allow the white woman to look and desire independently"?
4. Does "feminine freakishness and animality" mean "women were though to enjoy strange and nonhuman aspects"?
5. Does "was fraught" mean "was strongly considered"?
Context:
If the black male body was feminised by its alignment with nature, then the representation of the black female in relation to desire and visual pleasure was seen as even more problematic given that her positioning in the bodily schema of the mirror-stage rendered her an invisible counterfoil against which the white female body could be objectified as idealised, tropes pictured so cogently in Manet’s Olympia, 1863. If, in theories of the gaze, the white female was positioned as an object which denied her a place to look and desire on her own terms, the black female was doubly silenced, although nonetheless hyperbolically represented as sexually available, as exemplified in images of the Hottentot Venus, whose body and genitalia was exhibited and denigrated as the epitome of feminine freakishness and animality in nineteenth-century Britain and France. So the question of how female black artists could represent themselves as a desiring subject was fraught. Black narcissism was disavowed and black female narcissism was invisible (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).
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