Making freaks: Visual rhetorics and the spectacle of Julia Pastrana

Thinking the Limits of the Body

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 129-143

  Garland Thomson, Rosemarie ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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