Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary BodyRosemarie Garland-Thomson A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different |
Contents
The Social Construction of Freaks | 23 |
The Problem of | 38 |
Freaks asat the Limit | 55 |
The Exhibition of Human Oddities in | 69 |
Charles Willson Peale as Early | 82 |
P T Barnums Theatrical Selfhood and the NineteenthCentury Culture | 97 |
Laughing Gas | 108 |
Farm Security Administration | 121 |
The Politics and Commerce of Exhibiting Cultural | 219 |
Tattooing and the Racial | 234 |
Gender Imperialism | 248 |
Tod Brownings Freaks | 265 |
Freaks Gender and the Incorporation of History in | 277 |
The Life and Loves of a SheDevil and Nights at the | 291 |
Teaching Freaks | 302 |
The Dime Museum Freak Show Reconfigured as Talk Show | 315 |
The Strange Career of P T | 139 |
Science and Freaks in Germany | 158 |
Daisy and Violet Hilton the | 173 |
Tom Thumb and Shirley Temple | 185 |
Footlighting the Dark Continent | 207 |
Extraterrestrialism and DeepSpace | 327 |
Medical Documentaries and the Hyperrealization of | 338 |
A Postmodern Freak Show | 356 |
Michael Jacksons Grotesque Glory | 368 |
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Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body Rosemarie Garland-Thomson Limited preview - 1996 |
Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body Rosemarie Garland Thomson No preview available - 1996 |
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References to this book
In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification Victoria Pitts-Taylor No preview available - 2003 |
Collecting in Contemporary Practice Professor Susan Pearce,Susan M. Pearce No preview available - 1997 |