Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780190458997)

Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity is a collection of essays that focuses on disabled men who negotiate their masculinity as well as their disability. The chapters cover a broad range of topics: institutional structures that define what it means to be a man with a disability; the place of women in situations where masculinity and disability are constructed; men with physical and war-related disabilities; male hysteria, suicide clubs, and mercy killing; male disability in literature and popular culture; and more. All the authors regard masculinity and disability in the historical contexts of the Americas and Western Europe, with particular attention to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Taken together, the essays in this volume offer a nuanced portrait of the complex, and at times competing, interactions between masculinity and disability.

Author: Kathleen M. Brian
ISBN-10: 0190458992
ISBN-13: 9780190458997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2017
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.00d