Cover -- Freak Inheritance -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- List Of Contributors -- Introduction: Step Right Up! A New Introduction To The Old Freak Show -- I. Staging -- 1. Abject Bodies And Performance Art -- 2. The Normativity Of The Extraordinary: Musical Theatre On The Page And On The Stage -- 3. Performance, Pleasure, And Profit At The Victorian Freak Show -- 4. Chick Webb's Extraordinary Body Of Music -- 5. The Enfreakment Of The Premature Infant: Incubator Baby Shows In The United States -- Ii. Hybridity -- 6. The Tragic Journey Of A Mexican Savage To The Civilized World 7. Rest In Peace, Charles Byrne?: The Last Testament And Enduring Legacy Of The Eighteenth-​century Irish Giant -- 8. Chin Up: Befriending The Bearded Ladies -- 9. Spectacles Of Prognosis: El Niño Fidencio In The Twenty-​first Century -- Iii. Monstrosity -- 10. Monstrous Births And The Religious Imagination -- 11. Human Or Alien: Tracing Enfreaked Subjects In The Twentieth-​ And Twenty-​first-​century Theatre Of Disability -- 12. The Mortification Of Harvey Leach: Humor And Horror In Nineteenth-​century Theatre Of Disability -- Iv. Unsettling 13. Freakish Fecundity: Birth And Baby Reality Television As Eugenicist Discourse -- 14. Alexandrine: A German Princess With Down Syndrome Who Survived The Holocaust (a Photographic Essay) -- 15. Dead Weight: Exhibiting Fatness Postmortem -- 16. Disornamentation: An Optic For Reading Depictions Of Disabled, Asian Women -- 17. Sex Mad: Gender And Disability In The Art Of Eudora Welty And Reginald Marsh -- V. Learning -- 18. The Pedagogical Utility Of Early Freak Show Scholarship -- 19. Teaching The Extraordinary Body: A Generation Of Freaks And Monsters In The Classroom -- Index Edited By Rosemarie Garland-thomson, Michael Mark Chemers, And Analola Santana. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Electronic Reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mi Available Via World Wide Web.