Authors: Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Rosemarie Thomson-Garland
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-10 - Publisher: NYU Press
Giants. Midgets. Tribal non-Westerners. The very fat. The very thin. Hermaphrodites. Conjoined twins. The disabled. The very hirsute. In American history, all have shared the platform equally, as freaks, human oddities, their only commonality their assigned role of anomalous other to the gathered throngs. For the price of a ticket,