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| List of Illustrations | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface and Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: From Wonder to Error - A Genealogy of Freak Discourse in Modernity | |
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| The Social Construction of Freaks | |
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| The "Careers" of People Exhibited in Freak Shows: The Problem of Volition and Valorization | |
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| Intolerable Ambiguity: Freaks as/at the Limit | |
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| Monsters in the Marketplace: The Exhibition of Human Oddities in Early Modern England | |
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| Death-Defying/Defining Spectacles: Charles Willson Peale as Early American Freak Showman | |
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| P.T. Barnum's Theatrical Selfhood and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Exhibition | |
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| Social Order and Psychological Disorder: Laughing Gas Demonstrations, 1800-1850 | |
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| Photography and Persuasion: Farm Security Administration Photographs of Circus and Carnival Sideshows, 1935-1942 | |
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| Of Men, Missing Links, and Nondescripts: The Strange Career of P.T. Barnum's "What is It?" Exhibition | |
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| Aztecs, Aborigines, and Ape-People: Science and Freaks in Germany, 1850-1900 | |
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| The "Exceptions That Prove the Rule": Daisy and Violet Hilton, the "New Woman," and the Bonds of Marriage | |
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| Cuteness and Commodity Aesthetics: Tom Thumb and Shirley Temple | |
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| Ethnological Show Business: Footlighting the Dark Continent | |
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| Ogling Igorots: The Politics and Commerce of Exhibiting Cultural Otherness, 1898-1913 | |
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| "What an object he would have made of me!": Tattooing and the Racial Freak in Melville's Typee | |
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| The Circassian Beauty and the Circassian Slave: Gender, Imperialism, and American Popular Entertainment | |
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| "One of Us": Tod Browning's Freaks | |
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| An American Tail: Freaks, Gender, and the Incorporation of History in Katherine Dunn's Geek Love | |
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| Freaking Feminism: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil and Nights at the Circus as Narrative Freak Shows | |
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| Teaching Freaks | |
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| The Dime Museum Freak Show Reconfigured as Talk Show | |
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| Freaks in Space: "Extraterrestrialism" and "Deep-Space Multiculturalism" | |
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| Being Humaned: Medical Documentaries and the Hyperrealization of Conjoined Twins | |
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| Bodybuilding: A Postmodern Freak Show | |
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| The Celebrity Freak: Michael Jackson's "Grotesque Glory" | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |