Bin ich normal?

Does my body have a normal shape? Is it normal to talk to oneself? To have sex rarely? Questions like these shape our daily lives, our feelings, and our decisions. Until the nineteenth century, the term "normal," which originates from mathematics, was rarely associated with human behavior: triangles were normal, but not people. It was only from the 1830s, with the rise of modern statistics and a multitude of behavioral and social studies, that a full-blown classification craze began in Europe and North America – along with an obsessive search for the "normal" person. British historian Sarah Chaney reveals the cultural, social, and historical construction of what is deemed normal and analyzes how the term is misused as a political tool to systematically devalue, exclude, and discriminate against people. A wise and entertaining history of normality – and a call to critically question the spirit of the times.