{"product_id":"freak-inheritance-rosemarie-garland-thomson-9780197691137","title":"Freak Inheritance: Eugenics and Extraordinary Bodies in Performance","description":"The long-awaited follow-up to Garland-Thomson's field-defining book \u003cem\u003eFreakery\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFreak Inheritance\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rosemarie Garland-Thomson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197691137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197691137\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Rosemarie Garland-Thomson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45933843349759,"sku":"9780197691137","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e7504c01-5e3a-400b-b644-88bfd6405a63.jpg?v=1721789720","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/freak-inheritance-rosemarie-garland-thomson-9780197691137","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}