Table of Contents

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction:  Pookie’s Story

Chapter 1:  Monsters and Freaks:  Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things

Chapter 2:  The Carnival State:  Protest, Moral Regulation, and Profits

Chapter 3:  The Carnival Business in Canada:  Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour         

Chapter 4:  The Twentieth Century Freak Show:  Medical Discourse, Normality, and Race

Chapter 5:  Not Just Child’s Play:  Child Freak Show Consumers and Workers

Chapter 6:  The Spectacularization of Small and Cute:  Midget Shows and the Dionne Quintuplets

Epilogue:  ‘I guess it really is all over’:  The End Which is Not One

Bibliography

About the Author

Jane Nicholas is an associate professor in the Department of History and Department of Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies at the University of Waterloo.

Reviews

"This work is a demonstration of how original historical research, carefully and imaginatively deployed, can be usefully combined with contemporary culture theory of exhibitionary logics, embodiment, and difference. It is a story well told by a skillful historian."
*University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018*