Jane Nicholas is an associate professor in the Department of History and Department of Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies at the University of Waterloo.

"This work is a demonstration of how original historical research, carefully and imaginatively deployed, can be usefully combined with contemporary culture theory of exhibitionary logics, embodiment, and difference. It is a story well told by a skillful historian."- Kenneth Little, York University (University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018)

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction:  Pookie’s StoryChapter 1:  Monsters and Freaks:  Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of ThingsChapter 2:  The Carnival State:  Protest, Moral Regulation, and ProfitsChapter 3:  The Carnival Business in Canada:  Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour         Chapter 4:  The Twentieth Century Freak Show:  Medical Discourse, Normality, and RaceChapter 5:  Not Just Child’s Play:  Child Freak Show Consumers and WorkersChapter 6:  The Spectacularization of Small and Cute:  Midget Shows and the Dionne QuintupletsEpilogue:  ‘I guess it really is all over’:  The End Which is Not OneBibliography

Jane Nicholas is an associate professor in the Department of History and Department of Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies at the University of Waterloo.

"This work is a demonstration of how original historical research, carefully and imaginatively deployed, can be usefully combined with contemporary culture theory of exhibitionary logics, embodiment, and difference. It is a story well told by a skillful historian."- Kenneth Little, York University (University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018)

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction:  Pookie’s StoryChapter 1:  Monsters and Freaks:  Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of ThingsChapter 2:  The Carnival State:  Protest, Moral Regulation, and ProfitsChapter 3:  The Carnival Business in Canada:  Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour         Chapter 4:  The Twentieth Century Freak Show:  Medical Discourse, Normality, and RaceChapter 5:  Not Just Child’s Play:  Child Freak Show Consumers and WorkersChapter 6:  The Spectacularization of Small and Cute:  Midget Shows and the Dionne QuintupletsEpilogue:  ‘I guess it really is all over’:  The End Which is Not OneBibliography

Jane Nicholas is an associate professor in the Department of History and Department of Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies at the University of Waterloo.

"This work is a demonstration of how original historical research, carefully and imaginatively deployed, can be usefully combined with contemporary culture theory of exhibitionary logics, embodiment, and difference. It is a story well told by a skillful historian."- Kenneth Little, York University (University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018)

• List of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction:  Pookie’s StoryChapter 1:  Monsters and Freaks:  Exhibitionary Culture and the Order of ThingsChapter 2:  The Carnival State:  Protest, Moral Regulation, and ProfitsChapter 3:  The Carnival Business in Canada:  Paternalism, Belonging, and Freak Show Labour         Chapter 4:  The Twentieth Century Freak Show:  Medical Discourse, Normality, and RaceChapter 5:  Not Just Child’s Play:  Child Freak Show Consumers and WorkersChapter 6:  The Spectacularization of Small and Cute:  Midget Shows and the Dionne QuintupletsEpilogue:  ‘I guess it really is all over’:  The End Which is Not OneBibliography