Корично изображение Електронна книга
Съдържание:
  • pt. 1. Stature and the discourses of race
  • Representing the "pygmies"
  • The height of civilization : science and the management of stature
  • pt. 2. Size in the marketplace
  • A pygmy between two giants : the economic body in popular literature
  • The city of dreadful height : skyscrapers and the aesthetics of growth
  • pt. 3. Growing women, shrinking men
  • The growing woman and the growing Jew : Mary Antin, the new woman, and the immigration debate
  • The incredible industrial shrinking man : Upton Sinclair's challenge to hegemonic masculinity
  • Epilogue : Shrinking men and growing women (reprise).