{"product_id":"canadian-carnival-freaks-and-the-extraordinary-body-1900-1970s-hardback-9781487502652","title":"Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s (Hardback) 9781487502652","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCanadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJane Nicholas (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781487502652\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 April 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.3 x 2.5 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This work is a demonstration of how original historical research, carefully and imaginatively deployed, can be usefully combined with contemporary culture theory of exhibitionary logics, embodiment, and difference. It is a story well told by a skillful historian.\"\u003c\/p\u003e - Kenneth Little, York University (\u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJane Nicholas takes us on a search for answers about how and why the freak show persisted into the 1970s. In \u003ci\u003eCanadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900–1970s, \u003c\/i\u003eNicholas 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction:  Pookie\u0026amp;#x2019;s Story\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 1:  Monsters and Freaks:  Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2:  The Carnival State:  Protest, Moral Regulation, and Profits\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3:  The Carnival Business in Canada:  Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour         \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4:  The Twentieth Century Freak Show:  Medical Discourse, Normality, and Race\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5:  Not Just Child\u0026amp;#x2019;s Play:  Child Freak Show Consumers and Workers\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6:  The Spectacularization of Small and Cute:  Midget Shows and the Dionne Quintuplets\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEpilogue:  \u0026amp;#x2018;I guess it really is all over\u0026amp;#x2019;:  The End Which is Not One\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52595457622296,"sku":"9781487502652","price":41.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/canadian-carnival-freaks-and-the-extraordinary-body-1900-1970s-hardback-9781487502652","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}