Name: Phallacies By Kathleen M. Brian (Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Western Washington University)
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Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity by Kathleen M. Brian (Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Western Washington University)

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.

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That masculinity is an embodied practice has become epigrammatic to researchers. But what about when that body is damaged, incomplete, disfigured, partial, or somehow other? In this breakthrough interdisciplinary collection, 17 scholars and writers * historians, literary and media scholars, contemporary writers *
Phallacies provides an essential map to multiple locations where disabilities and masculinities have materialized, from clinics, to courtrooms, to theatres, to public streets, to private domestic spaces. The importance of studying disability at the intersections of gender, sexuality, race, and class has been firmly established in the vibrant, interdisciplinary field of disability studies. However, more than any other, this anthology makes it possible to pursue that study historically, in thick, nuanced, comparative, and expansive ways. - Robert McRuer, PhD, Professor, Department of English, The George Washington University; author, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability

About Kathleen M. Brian (Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Western Washington University)

Kathleen M. Brian, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Liberal Studies Department at Western Washington University. Brian's recent work has appeared in the Journal of Literary and Disability Studies, the History of Psychiatry, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine. James W. Trent, Jr., PhD, is a Visiting Scholar in the Heller School at Brandeis University. He is author of The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform (2012) and Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States (2016).

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Contributor Biographies Introduction David Serlin Part I: Is He Normal? Chapter 1. Disability's Other: The Production of 'Normal Men' in Midcentury America Anna Creadick Chapter 2. Henry Darger and the Unruly Paper Dollhouse Scrapbook Mary S. Trent Chapter 3. Black and Crazy: The Antinomian Black Male in North American Consciousness Lawrence E. Holcomb Chapter 4. Masculinity or Bust: Gender and Impairment in Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Murray K. Simpson Part II: War, Manhood, and Disability Chapter 5. Marketing Disabled Manhood: Veterans and Advertising since the Civil War John Kinder Chapter 6. 'Half a Man': The Symbolism and Science of Paraplegic Impotence in World War II America Beth Linker and Whitney E. Laemmli Chapter 7. 'A Blind Man's Home-Coming': Masculinity, Disability and Male Care-giving in First World War Britain Jessica Meyer Part III: Disabled Man as Less than a Man Chapter 8. Hysteria in the Male: Images of Masculinity in Late Nineteenth-Century France Daniela S. Barberis Chapter 9. Down and Out: American Male Beggars' Presentations, 1860s-1930s Robert Bogdan Chapter 10. Death on a Silver Platter: Masculinity, Disabilities, and the Noxon Murder Trials of 1944 Ivy George and James W. Trent Jr. Part IV: Men and Boys as Supercrips Chapter 11. Mythological Pedagogies; or, Suicide Clubs as Eugenic Alibi Kathleen M. Brian Chapter 12. Making Useful Men: The Roman Rosell Institute and Asylum for the Blind, 1933-1950 Rebecca Ellis Chapter 13. Weeping and Bad Hair: The Bodily Suffering of Early Christian Hell as a Threat to Masculinity Megan Henning Chapter 14. Porgy and Dubose Susan Schweik Chapter 15. Ernest Hemingway: Ernest Hemingway, the Man, the Girl, and the Genius Carolyn Slaughter Contributor Biographies Index

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Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity by Kathleen M. Brian (Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Western Washington University)

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Kathleen M. Brian (Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Western Washington University)

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2017-10-26

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Phallacies Kathleen M. Brian (Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Western Washington University)

Phallacies by Kathleen M. Brian (Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Western Washington University)

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Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity by Kathleen M. Brian (Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Western Washington University)

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About Kathleen M. Brian (Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Lecturer in Liberal Studies, Western Washington University)

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