Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity
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Author Description
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.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This collection of essays investigates how the intersection of disability and masculinity has been constructed, negotiated, and challenged within historical frameworks. Editors James W. Trent Jr. and Kathleen M. Brian curate a multidisciplinary analysis that examines how societal institutions, cultural representations, and personal experiences shape the identities of disabled men. By focusing on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the Americas and Western Europe, the contributors argue that masculinity is not a static trait but a fluid performance influenced by physical ability and social perception.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Analysis of institutional structures defining male disability
- Examination of male hysteria, suicide clubs, and mercy killing
- Studies on war-related disabilities and physical impairments
- Literary and popular culture representations of disabled men
- Historical contexts of the Americas and Western Europe
Scope Limits
- Does not provide an exhaustive global history of disability
- Focuses primarily on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Scholars in the fields of disability and gender studies identify this volume as a significant contribution to the intersectional understanding of male identity. Readers frequently note the academic rigor of the essays and their utility in bridging the gap between historical sociology and cultural criticism.
Page Count:
368
Publication Date:
2017-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190459018
ISBN-13:
9780190459017
History
Gender Studies
Introduction to Social WorkWelfare
Cultural History
Mens Studies
People with Disabilities
Sociology