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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature
Rosemarie Garland Thomson
- 15 Apr 1996
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TL;DR: The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-19404 as mentioned in this paper, discusses disability, identity, and representation: an Introduction and Acknowledgments, and theorizing disability.
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Abstract: Preface and AcknowledgmentsPart 1. Politicizing Bodily Differences1. Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction2. Theorizing DisabilityPart 2. Constructing Disabled Figures: Cultural and Literary Sites3. The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-19404. Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe, Davis and Phelps5. Disabled Women as Powerful Women in Petry, Morrison, and LordeConclusion: From Pathology to IdentityNotesBibliographyIndex
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