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Vulnerable constitutions : queerness, disability, and the remaking of American manhood
Title
Vulnerable constitutions : queerness, disability, and the remaking of American manhood / Cynthia Barounis.
ISBN
9781439915066
1439915067
9781439915073
1439915075
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
xi, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
"This work revisits canonical works of American literature, as well as more recent works, in order to argue that while we tend to understand queerness and disability as posing a crisis to masculinity, for many writers, these categories serve as vital resources for thinking through and constructing American masculinity"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Barounis, Cynthia, 1981- Vulnerable constitutions. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 01, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-254) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Bodies that Leak: American Masculinity and Anti-Prophylactic Citizenship
"An Inherent Weakness of the Constitution": Jack London's Revolting Men
"Love or Eugenics?": Faulkner and Fitzgerald's Crip Children
"Not the Usual Pattern": James Baldwin and the DSM
Post-AIDS Permeability: Samuel Delany and Anti-Prophylaxis
Prescribing Pleasure: Asexuality, Debility, and Trans Memoir
Epilogue: Against Queer Resilience.
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