MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aPS374.P44$bT49 1997
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100 1 $aThomson, Rosemarie Garland.
245 10 $aExtraordinary bodies :$bfiguring physical disability in American culture and literature /$cRosemarie Garland Thomson.
260 $aNew York :$bColumbia University Press,$cc1997.
300 $ax, 200 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [173]-189) and index.
505 2 $aThe cultural work of American freak shows, 1835-1940. The spectacle of the extraordinary body -- Constituting the average man -- Identification and the longing for distinction -- From freak to specimen : "The Hottentot Venus" and "The Ugliest Woman in the World" -- The end of the prodigious body.
505 2 $aBenevolent maternalism and the disabled women in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps. The maternal benefactress and her disabled sisters -- The disabled figure as a call for justice : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- Empowering the maternal benefactress -- Benevolent maternalism's flight from the body -- The female body as liability -- Two opposing scripts of female embodiment : Rebecca Harding Davis's Life in the iron mills -- The triumph of the beautiful, disembodied heroine : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The silent partner.
505 2 $aDisabled women as powerful women in Petry, Morrison, and Lorde. Revising Black female subjectivity -- The extraordinary woman as powerful woman : Ann Petry's The street -- From the grotesque to the cyborg -- The extraordinary body as the historicized body : Toni Morrison's disabled women -- The extraordinary subject : Audre Lorde's Zami : a new spelling of my name -- The poetics of particularity.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y19th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aPeople with disabilities in literature.
650 0 $aBody, Human, in literature.
650 0 $aBody, Human$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aPeople with disabilities$xSocial conditions.
650 0 $aWomen in literature.
650 0 $aPopular culture$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aAmusement parks$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aFeminism and literature$zUnited States.
650 0 $aHandicapped$xpsychology$zUnited States
650 0 $aSocial perception$zUnited States
650 0 $aLiterature, Modern$xpsychology$zUnited States
650 0 $aCulture$zUnited States
650 0 $aBody image$zUnited States
650 0 $aStereotyping$zUnited States
650 0 $aFeminism$xpsychology$zUnited States