Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body

by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Book Overview

A groundbreaking anthology that probes the disposition towards the visually different

Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks, human oddities, their only commonality their assigned role of anomalous other to the gathered throngs. For the price of a ticket, freak shows offered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814782221
• ISBN13: 9780814782224
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"