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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781487515744
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082 0 4 _a791.1
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aNicholas, Jane
_eautore
245 1 0 _aCanadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s /
_cJane Nicholas.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (320 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Canada / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487515744
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