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| Foreword | ||
| Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
| 1 | Introduction: From Wonder to Error - A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity | 1 |
| 2 | The Social Construction of Freaks | 23 |
| 3 | The "Careers" of People Exhibited in Freak Shows: The Problem of Volition and Valorization | 38 |
| 4 | Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit | 55 |
| 5 | Monsters in the Marketplace: The Exhibition of Human Oddities in Early Modern England | 69 |
| 6 | Death-Defying/Defining Spectacles: Charles Willson Peale as Early American Freak Showman | 82 |
| 7 | P.T. Barnum's Theatrical Selfhood and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Exhibition | 97 |
| 8 | Social Order and Psychological Disorder: Laughing Gas Demonstrations, 1800-1850 | 108 |
| 9 | Photography and Persuasion: Farm Security Administration Photographs of Circus and Carnival Sideshows, 1935-1942 | 121 |
| 10 | Of Men, Missing Links, and Nondescripts: The Strange Career of P.T. Barnum's "What is It?" Exhibition | 139 |
| 11 | Aztecs, Aborigines, and Ape-People: Science and Freaks in Germany, 1850-1900 | 158 |
| 12 | The "Exceptions That Prove the Rule": Daisy and Violet Hilton, the "New Woman," and the Bonds of Marriage | 173 |
| 13 | Cuteness and Commodity Aesthetics: Tom Thumb and Shirley Temple | 185 |
| 14 | Ethnological Show Business: Footlighting the Dark Continent | 207 |
| 15 | Ogling Igorots: The Politics and Commerce of Exhibiting Cultural Otherness, 1898-1913 | 219 |
| 16 | "What an object he would have made of me!": Tattooing and the Racial Freak in Melville's Typee | 234 |
| 17 | The Circassian Beauty and the Circassian Slave: Gender, Imperialism, and American Popular Entertainment | 248 |
| 18 | "One of Us": Tod Browning's Freaks | 265 |
| 19 | An American Tail: Freaks, Gender, and the Incorporation of History in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love | 277 |
| 20 | Freaking Feminism: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and Nights at the Circus as Narrative Freak Shows | 291 |
| 21 | Teaching Freaks | 302 |
| 22 | The Dime Museum Freak Show Reconfigured as Talk Show | 315 |
| 23 | Freaks in Space: "Extraterrestrialism" and "Deep-Space Multiculturalism" | 327 |
| 24 | Being Humaned: Medical Documentaries and the Hyperrealization of Conjoined Twins | 338 |
| 25 | Bodybuilding: A Postmodern Freak Show | 356 |
| 26 | The Celebrity Freak: Michael Jackson's "Grotesque Glory" | 368 |
| Contributors | 385 | |
| Index | 389 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Darryl Sherman
reviewed Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body on February 07, 2008 Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body
I recommend this book, cause I see how popular GEEK LOVE is. k. dunn is not a freak, but a fiction writer, however, thompson is an actual ass-tailed freak. she looks at the concept of the extraordinary body across a pantheon of disciplines, and her book is an anthology of some of the best writing on this subject. freak is an identity as powerful as race, class, or religion, but popularly absorbed by outsider characters wanting "other" status. it is not about how you look, but what your genetics are like when you are born. of course, with enough hard work, anyone could be a gaff. this is one to re-read and keep reading. gooble gobble gooble gobble, one of us, one of us.
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