Research Catalog

Title

Phallacies : historical intersections of disability and masculinity / edited by Kathleen M. Brian and James W. Trent, Jr.

Publication

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

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Additional Authors

• Brian, Kathleen M.
• Trent, James W., Jr., 1948-

Description

xii, 354 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

'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.

Subject

• Men with disabilities
• Masculinity
• Behinderter
• Geschlechtsidentität
• Männerbild
• Männlichkeit
• Mann

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Contributor biographies -- Introduction / David Serlin -- Is he normal? -- Disability's other: the production of "normal men" in midcentury / Anna Creadick -- America -- Henry Darger and the unruly paper dollhouse scrapbook / Mary Trent -- Black and crazy : the antinomian black male in North American consciousness / Lawrence E. Holcomb -- Masculinity or bust : gender and impairment in Russ Meyer's Faster pussycat! Kill! Kill! / Murray Simpson -- War, manhood, and disability -- Marketing disabled manhood : veterans and advertising since the Civil War / John Kinder -- Half a man : the symbolism and science of paraplegic impotence in World War II America / Beth Linker and Whitney Laemmli -- A blind man's home-coming : masculinity, disability and male care-giving in First World War Britain / Jessica Meyer -- Disabled man as "less than a man" -- Hysteria in the male : images of masculinity in late nineteenth-century France / Daniela Barberis -- Down and out : American male beggars : presentations, 1860s-1930s / Robert Bogdan -- Death on a silver platter : masculinity, disabilities, and the Noxon murder trials of 1944 / Ivy George and James W. Trent Jr -- Men and boys as "supercrips" -- Mythological pedagogies; or, suicide clubs as eugenic alibi / Kathleen M. Brian -- Making useful men : the Roman Rosell institute and asylum for the blind, 1933-1950 / Rebecca Ellis -- Weeping and bad hair : the bodily suffering of early Christian hell as a threat to masculinity / Megan Henning -- Porgy and dubose / Susan Schweik -- Ernest Hemingway : ernest Hemingway, the man, the girl and the genius / Carolyn Slaughter -- Contributor biographies -- Index.

Call Number

JFE 18-210

ISBN

• 9780190458997
• 0190458992

LCCN

2017002544

OCLC

993134155

Title

Phallacies : historical intersections of disability and masculinity / edited by Kathleen M. Brian and James W. Trent, Jr.

Publisher

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Brian, Kathleen M., editor.

Trent, James W., Jr., 1948- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Phallacies New York : Oxford University Press, [2017] 9780190459000

Research Call Number

JFE 18-210