Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’ write by Anna Kérchy. This book was released on 2013-02-14. Exploring the Cultural History of Continental European Freak Shows and ‘Enfreakment’ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection offers cultural historical analyses of enfreakment and freak shows, examining the social construction and spectacular display of wondrous, monstrous, or curious Otherness in the formerly relatively neglected region of Continental Europe. Forgotten stories are uncovered about freak-show celebrities, medical specimen, and philosophical fantasies presenting the anatomically unusual in a wide range of sites, including curiosity cabinets, anatomical museums, and traveling circus acts. The essays explore the locally specific dimensions of the exhibition of extraordinary bodies within their particular historical, cultural and political context. Thus the impact of the Nazi eugenics programs, state Socialism, or the Chernobyl catastrophe is observed closely and yet the transnational dimensions of enfreakment are made obvious through topics ranging from Jesuit missionaries’ diabolization of American Indians, to translations of Continental European teratology in British medical journals, and the Hollywood silver screen’s colonization of European fantasies about deformity. Although Continental European freaks are introduced as products of ideologically-infiltrated representations, they also emerge as embodied subjects endowed with their own voice, view, and subversive agency.
Reflections on Female and Trans* Masculinities and Other Queer Crossings
Reflections on Female and Trans* Masculinities and Other Queer Crossings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reflections on Female and Trans* Masculinities and Other Queer Crossings write by Nina Kane. This book was released on 2017-06-23. Reflections on Female and Trans* Masculinities and Other Queer Crossings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of essays emerged out of the Agender conference, and various queer cultural activities associated with the PoMoGaze project (Leeds Art Gallery, 2013–2015). PoMoGaze was a term created to promote queer co-curatorial projects held at the gallery as part of Community Engagement activities, and references ‘PoMo’ as a shortening of ‘Postmodern’ combined with ‘Gaze’ as a play on words linking the act of looking with LGBT*IQ activities. The book presents many voices exploring themes of female and trans* masculinities, gender equality, and the lives, work and activism of LGBT*IQ artists and thinkers. It includes discussion of arts-making, cultural materials, diverse identities, contemporary queer politics, and social histories, and travels across time telling gender-crossing stories of creative resistance. Readers with an interest in the performing and visual arts, literature, philosophy, and queer and gendered cultural readings with an intersectional emphasis, will be stimulated by this eclectic and thought-provoking collection.
Disability in German-Speaking Europe
Disability in German-Speaking Europe - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disability in German-Speaking Europe write by Linda Leskau. This book was released on 2022. Disability in German-Speaking Europe available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection reflects on the development of disability studies in German-speaking Europe and brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on disability in German, Austrian, and Swiss history and culture.
Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s
Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s write by Jane Nicholas. This book was released on 2018-01-01. Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s, Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak show in twentieth-century culture
A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century
A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century write by Joyce L. Huff. This book was released on 2023-05-17. A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The long 19th century-stretching from the start of the American Revolution in 1776 to the end of World War I in 1918-was a pivotal period in the history of disability for the Western world and the cultures under its imperial sway. Industrialization was a major factor in the changing landscape of disability, providing new adaptive technologies and means of access while simultaneously contributing to the creation of a mass-produced environment hostile to bodies and minds that did not adhere to emerging norms. In defining disability, medical views, which framed disabilities as problems to be solved, competed with discourses from such diverse realms as religion, entertainment, education, and literature. Disabled writers and activists generated important counternarratives, made increasingly available through the spread of print culture. An essential resource for researchers, scholars and students of history, literature, culture and education, A Cultural History of Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century includes chapters on atypical bodies, mobility impairment, chronic pain and illness, blindness, deafness, speech dysfluencies, learning difficulties, and mental health, with 37 illustrations drawn from period sources.
