Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American Manhood

by Cynthia Barounis

Amputation need not always signify castration; indeed, in Jack London's fiction, losing a limb becomes part of a process through which queerly gendered men become properly masculinized. In her astute book, Vulnerable Constitutions, Cynthia Barounis explores the way American writers have fashioned alternative-even resistant-epistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity. She seeks to understand the way perverse sexuality, physical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1439915075
• ISBN13: 9781439915073
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"