Title Extraordinary bodies : figuring physical disability in American culture and literature / Rosemarie Garland Thomson.

Publication Info.	New York : Columbia University Press, [1997]
	©1997

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University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location	813.0093 T484E	Check Shelf

Description	x, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-189) and index.
Contents	The disabled figure in culture -- The disabled figure in literature -- The gap between representation and reality -- An overview and a manifesto -- Feminist theory, the body, and the disabled figure -- Sociocultural analyses of the extraordinary body -- The disabled figure and the ideology of liberal individualism -- The disabled figure and the problem of work -- 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 -- 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 : Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's cabin -- 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 -- 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.
Subject	American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
	American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
	People with disabilities in literature.
	Human body in literature.
	Human body -- Social aspects.
	People with disabilities -- Social conditions.
	Women in literature.
	Popular culture -- United States -- History.
	Sideshows -- United States -- History.
	Feminism and literature -- United States.
	Disabled -- psychology -- United States.
	Social Perception -- United States.
	Literature, Modern -- psychology -- United States.
	Culture -- United States.
	Body Image -- United States.
	Stereotyping -- United States.
	Feminism -- psychology -- United States.
ISBN	0231105169 (cloth : acid-free paper)
	9780231105163 (cloth : acid-free paper)
	0231105177 (paper : acid-free paper)
	9780231105170 (paper : acid-free paper)

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