Entertaining Australia in the Interwar Years: Cultural Representations of Proportional Little Show People
In the 1920s-1930s, Australia hosted several companies of well-proportioned little people (‘midget troupes’) who perceived themselves as ‘perfectly normal, miniature adults’. In search of social acceptance, these diminutive artists, affected by growth hormone deficiency (GHD), rejected their impaire...
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University of Western Australia
2020-02-01
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| Series: | Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies |
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| Online Access: | http://www.limina.arts.uwa.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/3445733/Boumans_Entertaining-Australia.pdf |