The Crippled Nutmeg Seller: Gendering Disabled Bodies (Part 3)

This piece uses a primary source about a disabled nutmeg seller as a launchpad to explore concepts of the worthy and unworthy poor in the 19th century. Part1, part 2 is Sensationalistic Voyeurism and part 3 is the Gendering of Disability Disability in the nineteenth century can be argued to have a gendered component. Indeed, the…

The Crippled Nutmeg Seller – Sensationalitic Voyeurism (Part 2)

This piece uses a primary source about a disabled nutmeg seller as a launchpad to explore concepts of the worthy and unworthy poor in the 19th century. Part1, part 2 is Sensationalistic Voyeurism and part 3 is the Gendering of Disability Victorian melodrama, such as what is evident in this text, presents an “emotional world based…