Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Pookie’s Story 3
6. 1. Monsters and Freaks: Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of Things 22
7. 2. The Carnival State: Protests, Moral Regulation, and Profits 42
8. 3. The Carnival Business in Canada: Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour 78
9. 4. The Twentieth-Century Freak Show: Medical Discourse, Normality, and Race 115
10. 5. Not Just Child’s Play: Child Freak Show Consumers and Workers 149
11. 6. The Spectacularization of Small and Cute: Midget Shows and the Dionne Quintuplets 174
12. Epilogue: “I guess it really is all over” − The End Which Is Not One 201
13. Notes 205
14. Bibliography 263
15. Index 283