BOOKS by Rosemarie G Thomson

Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body more books like this

by Rosemarie G Thomson (Editor)

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, freak shows ...

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Working Against Odds: Stories of Disabled Women's Work Lives more books like this

by Mary Grimley Mason, Rosemarie Garland-Thomson (Foreword by)

In this ethnographic study of disabled women's relationship with work, Mary Grimley Mason describes the viewpoints, struggles, strategies, and triumphs of eighteen women with a range of physical and sensory impairments. She relates how each came to terms with her disability and achieved self-identity and self-sufficiency in an able-bodied world.

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Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature more books like this

by Professor Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Inaugurates a new field of disability studies by framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a medical one. The book examines disabled figures in Uncle Tom's Cabin and in African-American novels by Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde as well as in the popular cultural ritual of the freak show.

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