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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Nicholas, Jane , author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s / Jane Nicholas. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (320 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Pookie’s Story -- 1. Monsters and Freaks: Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things -- 2. The Carnival State: Protests, Moral Regulation, and Profits -- 3. The Carnival Business in Canada: Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour -- 4. The Twentieth-Century Freak Show: Medical Discourse, Normality, and Race -- 5. Not Just Child’s Play: Child Freak Show Consumers and Workers -- 6. The Spectacularization of Small and Cute: Midget Shows and the Dionne Quintuplets -- Epilogue: “I guess it really is all over” − The End Which Is Not One -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 the freak show persisted into the 1970s. In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900–1970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture. Freak shows survived and thrived because of their flexible business model, government support, and by mobilizing cultural and medical ideas of the body and normalcy. This book is the first full length study of the freak show in Canada and is a significant contribution to our understanding of the history of Canadian popular culture, attitudes toward children, and the social construction of able-bodiness. Based on an impressive research foundation, the book will be of particular interest to anyone interested in the history of disability, the history of childhood, and the history of consumer culture. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Aug 2021) HISTORY / Canada / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606799 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487515744 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487515744 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781487515744.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Pookie’s Story -- 1. Monsters and Freaks: Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things -- 2. The Carnival State: Protests, Moral Regulation, and Profits -- 3. The Carnival Business in Canada: Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour -- 4. The Twentieth-Century Freak Show: Medical Discourse, Normality, and Race -- 5. Not Just Child’s Play: Child Freak Show Consumers and Workers -- 6. The Spectacularization of Small and Cute: Midget Shows and the Dionne Quintuplets -- Epilogue: “I guess it really is all over” − The End Which Is Not One -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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