{"product_id":"canadian-carnival-freaks-and-the-extraordinary-body-19001970s-9781487522087","title":"Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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, 19001970s, \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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\" -- Kenneth Little, York University * \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations Acknowledgements    Introduction:  Pookie's Story    Chapter 1:  Monsters and Freaks:  Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things    Chapter 2:  The Carnival State:  Protest, Moral Regulation, and Profits    Chapter 3:  The Carnival Business in Canada:  Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour             Chapter 4:  The Twentieth Century Freak Show:  Medical Discourse, Normality, and Race    Chapter 5:  Not Just Child's Play:  Child Freak Show Consumers and Workers    Chapter 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    Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409150189911,"sku":"9781487522087","price":23.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487522087.jpg?v=1730505646","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/canadian-carnival-freaks-and-the-extraordinary-body-19001970s-9781487522087","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}