Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Stature and the Discourses of Race -- 1. Representing the "Pygmies" -- 2. The Height of Civilization: Science and the Management of Stature -- Part 2: Size in the Marketplace -- 3. A Pygmy between Two Giants: The Economic Body in Popular Literature -- 4. The City of Dreadful Height: Skyscrapers and the Aesthetics of Growth -- Part 3: Growing Women, Shrinking Men -- 5. The Growing Women and the Growing Jew: Mary Antin, the New Woman, and the Immigration Debate -- 6. The Incredible Industrial Shrinking Man: Upton Sinclair's Challenge to Hegemonic Masculinity -- Epilogue: Shrinking Men and Growing Women (Reprise) -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.