In 1973, a five year old girl known as Pookie was exhibited as "The
Monkey Girl" at the Canadian National Exhibition. Pookie was the
last of a number of children exhibited as 'freaks' in
twentieth-century Canada. Jane Nicholas takes us on a search for
answers about how and why the freak show persisted into the 1970s.
In Canadian Carnival Freaks and the Extraordinary Body, 1900-1970s,
Nicholas offers a sophisticated analysis of the place of the freak
show in twentieth-century culture. Freak shows survived and thrived
because of their flexible business model, government support, and
by mobilizing cultural and medical ideas of the body and normalcy.
This book is the first full length study of the freak show in
Canada and is a significant contribution to our understanding of
the history of Canadian popular culture, attitudes toward children,
and the social construction of able-bodiness. Based on an
impressive research foundation, the book will be of particular
interest to anyone interested in the history of disability, the
history of childhood, and the history of consumer culture.
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