Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

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Abstract

Preface and AcknowledgmentsPart 1. Politicizing Bodily Differences1. Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction2. Theorizing DisabilityPart 2. Constructing Disabled Figures: Cultural and Literary Sites3. The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-19404. Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe, Davis and Phelps5. Disabled Women as Powerful Women in Petry, Morrison, and LordeConclusion: From Pathology to IdentityNotesBibliographyIndex

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Canadian Identity and History Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction Spanish Culture and Identity

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Gender equality

Publication Details

Published in: American Literature

Volume 70, Issue 1, pp. 187-187

DOI: 10.2307/2902469

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