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Freak Inheritance

- Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance
Engelsk Paperback

Freak Inheritance

- Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance
Engelsk Paperback
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The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson''s field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and social Others that emerge as eugenic targets from the late 19th century into the 20th century and beyond. This book explores the wildly popular performances that told compelling stories about categories of people that scientific and social-scientific discourses increasingly described - and sometimes still describe - as biologically inferior. Although much work has emerged recently about the history of eugenics, this collection highlights the specific ways that modes of exaggerated commercial popular performances create a public conversation that mirrors pathological narratives of human difference that are now firmly established as the categories of normal and abnormal, healthy and diseased, beneficial and harmful. This connection between narratives of freakery and normalcy gesture towards a fuller understanding of how eugenic thinking has re-emerged strongly as a force in medical science and cultural thinking aimed at producing the supposed “best” and “most useful” kinds of people.
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The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson''s field-defining book Freakery, Freak Inheritance illuminates the convergence of the freak show era with the eugenics era, explicating the cultural work of the freak show as a compelling range of performances of cultural and social Others that emerge as eugenic targets from the late 19th century into the 20th century and beyond. This book explores the wildly popular performances that told compelling stories about categories of people that scientific and social-scientific discourses increasingly described - and sometimes still describe - as biologically inferior. Although much work has emerged recently about the history of eugenics, this collection highlights the specific ways that modes of exaggerated commercial popular performances create a public conversation that mirrors pathological narratives of human difference that are now firmly established as the categories of normal and abnormal, healthy and diseased, beneficial and harmful. This connection between narratives of freakery and normalcy gesture towards a fuller understanding of how eugenic thinking has re-emerged strongly as a force in medical science and cultural thinking aimed at producing the supposed “best” and “most useful” kinds of people.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 352
ISBN-13: 9780197691137
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0197691137
Kategori: Populærkultur
Udg. Dato: 27 sep 2024
Længde: 22mm
Bredde: 158mm
Højde: 236mm
Forlag: Oxford University Press Inc
Oplagsdato: 27 sep 2024
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Kategori Populærkultur

ISBN-13 9780197691137

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 352

Udgave

Længde 22mm

Bredde 158mm

Højde 236mm

Udg. Dato 27 sep 2024

Oplagsdato 27 sep 2024

Forlag Oxford University Press Inc

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