ACLS Humanities E-Book: Extraordinary bodies: figuring physical disability in American culture and literature

Extraordinary bodies: figuring physical disability in American culture and literature

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland.

Year: c1997.

Publisher: Columbia University Press.

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Frontmatter

Preface and Acknowledgments

Part 1.....POLITICIZING BODILY DIFFERENCES

1 Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction

2 Theorizing Disability

Part 2.....CONSTRUCTING DISABLED FIGURES: CULTURAL AND LITERARY SITES

3 The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-1940

4 Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps

5 Disabled Women as Powerful Women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde

Conclusion: From Pathology to Identity

Notes

Bibliography

Index

reviews

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Title:

Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature Rosemarie Garland Thomson.

Author:

Thomson, Rosemarie Garland

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Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature Rosemarie Garland Thomson.
Thomson, Rosemarie Garland
New York: Columbia University Press, c1997.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02826

Subject Headings:

• American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
• American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
• People with disabilities in literature
• Body, Human, in literature
• Body, Human -- Social aspects
• People with disabilities -- Social aspects
• Popular culture -- United States -- History
• Sideshows -- United States -- History
• Feminism and literature -- United States
• Women in literature

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