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Title Phallacies : historical intersections of disability and masculinity / edited by Kathleen M. Brian and James W. Trent, Jr
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

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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
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. Essays include war-related disabilities, male hysteria, suicide clubs, mercy killings, and portraits of disabled men in literature and popular culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 27, 2017)
Subject Men with disabilities.
Masculinity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Masculinity
Men with disabilities
Form Electronic book
Author Brian, Kathleen M., editor
Trent, James W., Jr., 1948- editor.
LC no. 2017032788
ISBN 9780190459000
019045900X
0190458992
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9780190459024
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