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Spectacle of Deformity

Freak Shows and Modern British Culture

By: Nadja Durbach

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Spectacle of Deformity

Freak Shows and Modern British Culture

By: Nadja Durbach

In 1847, during the great age of the freak show, the British periodical Punch bemoaned the public's "prevailing taste for deformity." This vividly detailed work argues that far from being purely exploitative, displays of anomalous bodies served a deeper social purpose as they generated popular and scientific debates over the meanings attached to bodily difference. Nadja Durbach examines freaks both well-known and obscure including the Elephant Man; "Lalloo, the Double-Bodied Hindoo Boy," a set of conjoined twins advertised as half male, half female; Krao, a seven-year-old hairy Laotian girl who was marketed as Darwin's "missing link"; the "Last of the Mysterious Aztecs" and African "Cannibal Kings," who were often merely Irishmen in blackface. Upending our tendency to read late twentieth-century conceptions of disability onto the bodies of freak show performers, Durbach shows that these spectacles helped to articulate the cultural meanings invested in otherness--and thus clarified what it meant to be British—at a key moment in the making of modern and imperial ideologies and identities.

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Univ of California Press

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0520944895

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9780520944893

Many Mouths

The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State

By: Nadja Durbach

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The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State

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A compelling study of two centuries of British government food programs and the cultural, political and economic factors that shaped them.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108483836

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Bodily Matters

The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907

By: Nadja Durbach

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Bodily Matters

The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907

By: Nadja Durbach

DIVConsiders the Victorian anti-vaccination movement in the context of debates over citizenship, parental rights, class politics, the significance of bodily integrity, the control of contagious disease, and state access to the bodies of both adult and infant/div

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Duke University Press

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0822334232

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9780822334231

Spectacle of Deformity

Freak Shows and Modern British Culture

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Freak Shows and Modern British Culture

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Bodily Matters

The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907

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The Anti-Vaccination Movement in England, 1853–1907

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Many Mouths

The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State

By: Nadja Durbach

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The Politics of Food in Britain from the Workhouse to the Welfare State

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A compelling study of two centuries of British government food programs and the cultural, political and economic factors that shaped them.

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Spectacle of Deformity

Spectacle of Deformity

Many Mouths

Many Mouths

Bodily Matters

Bodily Matters

Spectacle of Deformity

Spectacle of Deformity

Bodily Matters

Bodily Matters

Many Mouths

Many Mouths

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