Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson

418 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging reflective slow-paced
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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 thei...

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