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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- 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
