Freakery: Cultural Spectacles Of The Extraordinary Body
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| Originally published | October 1996 |
| Editors | Rosemarie Garland-Thomson |
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| ID | 2221820 |
About Freakery: Cultural Spectacles Of The Extraordinary Body
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. . . .