"Willingness to work emanated from our incomplete bodies" : Gender, Normality and Productivity in Autobiographical Writings of Czech Interwar "Armless Wonders"
2011
Abstract
The study analyzes the ways in which an autobiographical "self" was produced in super-crip narratives written by Czech interwar armless freak performers, above all by František Filip known as "Frankie the Armless". Developing the recent intersectional reserach in disability history the study explores what ideologies dis/activated each other by the articulations of an autobiographical self and the bodily difference itself (such as republicanism, liberal capitalism, heteronormativity or compulsory ablebodiedness).