Rosemarie Garland Thomson

Biographic Data

ID844976
NAMERosemarie Garland Thomson
GIVEN NAMESRosemarie Garland
FAMILY NAMEThomson
SIGNATURETHOMSON R G
AFFILIATIONSHoward University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS31
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2009
H-INDEX2

  • Staring How We Look: How We Look

    Rosemarie Garland‐thomson, Rosemarie Garland Thomson et al.BOOKStaring2009

    From a very young age we are told not to stare, and one hallmark of maturation is the ability to resist (or at least hide) our staring behavior. And yet, rarely do we master the impulse. Despite the complicated role it plays in our development, and its unique brand of visual enticement, staring has not been considered before as a suitable object for socio-cultural analysis. What is it about certain kinds of people that makes it impossible to take…

  • Byron and the new disability studies: A response

    Rosemarie Garland ThomsonARTICLEEuropean Romantic Review2001

    (2001). Byron and the new disability studies: A response. European Romantic Review: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 321-327.

  • Staring Back: Self-Representations of Disabled Performance Artists

    Open AccessRosemarie Garland ThomsonARTICLEAmerican Quarterly2000Cited by: 16References: 1

    The meaning of the body, thus the meaning of the self, emerges through social relations. 1 We learn who we are by the responses we elicit from others. In social relations, disabled bodies prompt the question, "What happened to you?" The disabled body demands a narrative, requires an apologia that accounts for its difference from unexceptional bodies. In this sense, disability identity is constituted by the story of why my body is different from y…

  • Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

    G Thomas Couser, Rosemarie Garland ThomsonARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…1999

    Journal Article Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: Columbia UP, 1996. x + 200. $45.00 cloth, $14.50 paper. Get access Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature. Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: Columbia UP, 1996. x + 200 pages. $45.00 cloth, $14.50 paper. G. Thomas Couser G. Thomas Couser Hofstra University Sear…

  • Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body

    Mark C Carnes, Rosemarie Garland Thomson et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1998Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Freakery: Cultural Spectacles of the Extraordinary Body. Ed. by Rosemarie Garland Thomson. New York: New York University Press, 1996. xviii, 400pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-81478217-5 and The Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture. By Leonard Cassuto. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. xxii, 289 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-10336-0 Get access Mark C. Carnes Mark C. Carnes Barnard College New Yo…

  • Extraordinary Bodies: Figuring Physical Disability in American Culture and Literature

    Ann Folwell, Rosemarie Garland ThomsonARTICLEAmerican Literature1998

    Politicizing Bodily Differences1. Disability, Identity, and Representation: An Introduction2. Theorizing DisabilityPart 2. Constructing Disabled Figures: Cultural and Literary Sites3. The Cultural Work of American Freak Shows, 1835-19404. Benevolent Maternalism and the Disabled Women in Stowe, Davis and Phelps5. Disabled Women as Powerful Women in Petry, Morrison, and LordeConclusion: From Pathology to IdentityNotesBibliographyIndex

  • Benevolent Maternalism and Physically Disabled Figures: Dilemmas of Female Embodiment in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps

    Rosemarie Garland ThomsonARTICLEAmerican Literature1996Cited by: 2

    Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Benevolent Maternalism and Physically Disabled Figures: Dilemmas of Female Embodiment in Stowe, Davis, and Phelps, American Literature, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Sep., 1996), pp. 555-586

  • Ann Petry's Mrs. Hedges and the evil, one‐eyed girl: A feminist exploration of the physically disabled female subject

    Rosemarie Garland ThomsonARTICLEWomen s Studies1995References: 4

  • Redrawing the Boundaries of Feminist Disability Studies

    Rosemarie Garland Thomson, Diane Price Herndl et al.ARTICLEFeminist Studies1994Cited by: 12