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04307cam a2200769 a 4500 001 0B1DD6662AF411DEB9750807A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20090730152236 008 960515s1997 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 96021998 020 $a 9780231105170 (paper : acid-free paper) 020 $a 0231105177 (paper : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9780231105163 (cloth : acid-free paper) 020 $a 0231105169 (cloth : acid-free paper) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d CUM $d UKM $d BAKER $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d LVB $d NIU $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS374.P44 $b T49 1997 082 00 $a 813/.0093520816 $2 20 100 1 $a Thomson, Rosemarie Garland. 245 1 $a Extraordinary bodies : $b figuring physical disability in American culture and literature / $c Rosemarie Garland Thomson. 260 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c c1997. 300 $a x, 200 p. : $b ill. ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-189) and index. 505 2 $a The 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 $a Benevolent 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 $a Disabled 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 $a American fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a American fiction $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a People with disabilities in literature. 650 0 $a Body, Human, in literature. 650 0 $a Body, Human $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a People with disabilities $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Women in literature. 650 0 $a Popular culture $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Sideshows $z United States $x History. 650 0 $a Feminism and literature $z United States. 650 12 $a Disabled $x psychology $z United States. 650 12 $a Social Perception $z United States. 650 12 $a Literature, Modern $x psychology $z United States. 650 22 $a Culture $z United States. 650 22 $a Body Image $z United States. 650 22 $a Stereotyping $z United States. 650 22 $a Feminism $x psychology $z United States. 650 6 $a Roman ameÌricain $y 19e sieÌcle $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a Roman ameÌricain $y 20e sieÌcle $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a HandicapeÌs dans la litteÌrature. 650 6 $a Corps humain dans la litteÌrature. 650 6 $a Corps humain $x Aspect social. 650 6 $a HandicapeÌs $x Conditions sociales. 650 6 $a Femmes dans la litteÌrature. 650 6 $a Culture populaire $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire. 650 6 $a Attractions (Spectacles) $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire. 650 6 $a FeÌminisme et litteÌrature $z EÌtats-Unis. 941 $a 11 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724045208.0 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214024708.0 952 $l I6OX771 $d 20220719011053.0 952 $l ULAX314 $d 20190926071725.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190905042937.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180126070525.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20110910010438.0 952 $l UTAX115 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PTAX572 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0B1DD6662AF411DEB9750807A8D7520A 994 $a 03 $b NIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search