Phallacies: Historical Intersections of Disability and Masculinity

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.