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"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."--

Carnivals --- Freak shows --- Sideshows --- Entertainers --- History --- Canada.

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Social Conditions --- History, 19th Century --- Congenital Abnormalities --- Human body --- Freak shows --- Abnormalities, Human --- history --- history --- Social aspects --- History --- History --- History

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This collection offers cultural historical analyses of enfreakment and freak shows, examining the social construction and spectacular display of wondrous, monstrous, or curious Otherness in the formerly relatively neglected region of Continental Europe. Forgotten stories are uncovered about freak-show celebrities, medical specimen, and philosophical fantasies presenting the anatomically unusual in a wide range of sites, including curiosity cabinets, anatomical museums, and traveling circus ac...

Freak shows --- Abnormalities, Human --- Curiosities and wonders --- Enigmas --- Facts, Miscellaneous --- Miscellaneous facts --- Oddities --- Trivia --- Wonders --- Abnormalities --- Anomalies, Congenital --- Birth defects --- Congenital abnormalities --- Congenital anomalies --- Defects, Birth --- Deformities --- Developmental abnormalities --- Human abnormalities --- Malformations, Congenital --- Morphology --- Pathology --- Teratogenesis --- Teratology --- Sideshows --- History.

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This book traces how the American freak show has re-emerged in new visual forms in the 21st century. It explores the ways in which moving image media transmits and contextualizes, reinterprets and appropriates the freak show model into a “new American freak show.” It investigates how new freak representations introduce narratives about sex, gender, and cultural perceptions of people with disabilities. The chapters examine such representations found in horror films, including a prolonged look at Freaks (1932) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), documentaries such as Murderball (2005) and TLC’s Push Girls (2012-present), disability pornography including the pornographic documentary Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan Supermasochist (1997), and the music icons Marilyn Manson and Lady Gaga in their portrayals of disability and freakishness. Through this book we learn that the visual culture that has emerged takes the place of the traditional freak show but opens new channels of interpretation and identification through its use of mediated images as well as the altered freak-norm relationship that it has fostered. In its illumination of the relationship between normal and freakish bodies through different media, this book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability studies, gender studies, film theory, critical race theory and cultural studies. .

Freak shows --- Mass media and culture --- Sideshows --- Popular Culture. --- People with disabilities. --- Culture. --- Gender. --- Film genres. --- United States-Study and teaching. --- Popular Culture . --- Disability Studies. --- Culture and Gender. --- Genre. --- American Culture. --- Genre films --- Genres, Film --- Motion picture genres --- Motion pictures --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Cripples --- Disabled --- Disabled people --- Disabled persons --- Handicapped --- Handicapped people --- Individuals with disabilities --- People with physical disabilities --- Persons with disabilities --- Physically challenged people --- Physically disabled people --- Physically handicapped --- Persons --- Disabilities --- Sociology of disability --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Plots, themes, etc. --- Social aspects --- United States—Study and teaching.

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James McCune Smith and Henry Highland Garnet met as schoolboys at the Mulberry Street New York African Free School, an educational experiment created by founding fathers who believed in freedom's power to transform the country. Smith and Garnet's achievements were near-miraculous in a nation that refused to acknowledge black talent or potential. The sons of enslaved mothers, these schoolboy friends would go on to travel the world, meet Revolutionary War heroes, publish in medical journals, address Congress, and speak before cheering crowds of thousands. The lessons they took from their days at the New York African Free School #2 shed light on how antebellum Americans viewed black children as symbols of America's possible future. The story of their lives, their work, and their friendship testifies to the imagination and activism of the free black community that shaped the national journey toward freedom.

African American intellectuals --- Free Black people --- Slavery --- Antislavery movements --- African Americans --- African Americans --- History --- History --- History. --- Cultural assimilation --- History --- Colonization --- History --- Smith, James McCune, --- Garnet, Henry Highland, --- Smith, James McCune, --- Garnet, Henry Highland, --- New-York African Free-School. --- American Colonization Society. --- American Colonization Society --- New-York African Free-School --- History. --- History. --- United States. --- Africa. --- New York (State) --- United States --- New York (State) --- History --- History --- 1863 riot. --- Address to the Slaves. --- African American. --- African Civilization Society. --- African colonization. --- American Colonization Society. --- Black abolitionist. --- Black rebellion. --- Civil War. --- Colored Orphan Asylum. --- Frederick Douglass. --- Free Produce Movement. --- Heads of the Colored People. --- Henry Highland Garnet. --- James McCune Smith. --- John Brown. --- Lincoln. --- Marxist. --- New York African Free School. --- New York Colored Orphan Asylum. --- Noyes Academy. --- Thirteenth Amendment. --- University of Glasgow. --- Weims family. --- abolitionism. --- antislavery. --- census. --- colonization. --- freak shows. --- manhood.