Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s / / Jane Nicholas.
In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the last of a number of children exhibited as 'freaks' in twentieth-century Canada. Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for answers about how and why th...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
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