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Title: Freak Show: Presenting Human Oddities for Amusement and Profit by Robert Bogdan ISBN: 0-226-06312-7 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: for Freak Geeks Only
Comment: I loved every page of this book. It gave me the most in depth information on the development of the side show and the expoitation of human beings. Also was included little known personal information on some of my favorite oddities. A very intelligent read.
Rating: 4
Summary: history of the sideshows
Comment: This book is a book that tells you about the ins and outs of how the freakshows started and profited. I had no idea that it was a social book. I thought that it would be a a book about "freaks". I was wrong. It is a good book though. I enjoy reading about oddities and liked learning about how they were brought about into the public eye. It's worth taking a look at.
Rating: 5
Summary: A great introduction to the sociology of deviance
Comment: I have been using Freak Show in my Introduction to Sociology class since it has been published. I find the book to be a great way to introduce students to a qualitative approach to the sociology of deviance. Bogdan's fresh approach to the material makes the experiences of the so-called "freaks" come alive. Discussion that ensues covers the range from the construction of disabilites, how non-white "races" were constructed as "inferior," and the way modern-day "Freak shows" live on in TV-talk shows. I have frequently cast about for a newer supplemental reading to offer my students, but have always come back to Freak Show. And for all you non-professors out there, I recommend the book as a great read!
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Title: Freaks: We Who Are Not As Others by Daniel P. Mannix ISBN: 0965104257 Publisher: Juno Books Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination by Rachel Adams ISBN: 0226005399 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: James Taylor's Shocked and Amazed: On & Off the Midway by James Taylor, Kathleen Kotcher ISBN: 1585747076 Publisher: Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Monsters: Human Freaks in America's Gilded Age: The Photographs of Chas Eisenmann by Chas. Eisenmann, Michael Mitchell ISBN: 1550225324 Publisher: ECW Press Pub. Date: 31 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body by Rosemarie Garland Thomson ISBN: 0814782221 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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