Disability and Masculinities : Corporeality, Pedagogy and the Critique of Otherness

In recent years, attending to diversity in the cultivation of embodied identity has been given additional impetus as a result of intersectionality theory. Despite this, a key gap remains in terms of knowledge about masculinity and disability. This book addresses this lacuna through ten empirical chapters organised through the inter-related themes of corporeality, pedagogy and the critique of otherness. Each of the chapters positions the subject of masculinity and disability as a site of cultural pedagogy by affirming different ways of knowing of masculinity beyond dominant ideologies that normalise a particular masculine body and relegate disabled masculinities to the position of abnormal ‘Other’. Part One focuses on pedagogy. Through the materialities of ‘medicalized colonialism’, imprimaturs of ‘relational genealogies’, ‘compounding differences’ and an analytical exposition of some of the neo-colonial conditions of the Global South within spatially-considered places of the Global North, Chapter 1 examines the denial of human rights to the Indigenous Anishinaabe community of Shoal Lake 40 in Canada. Chapter 1 theorises masculine corporeality in terms that take seriously First Nations', national and transnational body politics seriously. Chapter 2 examines the ways that movement and affect serve as a form of pedagogy for boys with autism spectrum in schools. Part Two’s focus on corporeality includes an examination of the nexus of disability and diagnosis in the context of transgender men’s experiences of mental health, and a discussion of the ways that intersex individuals who identify as men and have experienced ‘genital normalising surgery’ actively negotiate pluralised masculinities. The focus on media in Part Three encompasses a study of the mis-interpellation of the disabled male subject in Australian male literature, research on the discursive strategies utilised in media representations of disabled veterans in Turkey, and an analysis of the political implications of depictions of masculinity, disability and sexualities in a variety television program. Part Four’s theme of self-stylisation takes up the questions of men’s reconstructions of masculinity in light of Lyme Disease, the potential pleasures of heterosexuality for young men with a hearing disability in the realm of Australian-Rules Football, and the diverse ways that disabled men negotiate patriarchal masculinity in intimate relationships. "Contents"--"List of Figures" -- "List of Table" -- "Foreword" -- "Structure of the Book" -- "References" -- "Introductory Essay: Disability and Masculinities: Corporeality, Pedagogy and the Critique of Otherness" -- "Introduction" -- "Section 1: Theorising Disability and Masculinities " -- "Essentialism and Dualistic Thought" -- "The Socially Constructed Body" -- "Anti-essentialism" -- "Towards a Post-essentialist Position: Postmodern, Post-structuralist and Queer Scholarship and Continental Philosophical Interventions" -- "Section 2: The Material Conditions of Disability and Masculine Embodiment" -- "Section 3: Representation Matters" -- "Section 4: Future Directions" -- "References" -- "Part I: Of Pedagogy" -- "1: â#x80;#x98;O Canadaâ#x80;#x99; or â#x80;#x98;Freedom Roadâ#x80;#x99;?: Shoal Lake 40â#x80;#x99;s Mirror on Global Northern Disability Studies and Public Pedagogies" -- " Compounding Differences, Problematizing Intersectionality and Metaphorization" -- " Modernityâ#x80;#x99;s Medicalized colonialism, Metaphorization and â#x80;#x98;Bare Lifeâ#x80;#x99;" -- " Neo-liberal Exceptions as Rules: Water as tourism vs. Water as Human Rightsâ#x80;#x99; Violations" -- " Public Despair in Masculinist Disabling Times" -- " Austerity and Indigenous Poverty" -- " Trudeau and Moving Forward: A Kinder Canada?" -- " Provisional thoughts: What can be learned from Shoal Lake 40â#x80;#x99;s Public Pedagogy?" -- " Notes" -- "References" -- "2: A Pedagogy of Movement and Affect: A Young Man with Autism Spectrum and Intersubjective Possibilities" -- " Introduction" -- " Masculinity, Disability and Education" -- " Deleuzoguattarian Concepts and Education" -- " Conceptual Framework" -- " Leoâ#x80;#x99;s Social Experiences" -- " Conclusion" -- "References" -- "Part II: Corporeality" -- "3: The Disability and Diagnosis Nexus: Transgender Men Navigating Mental Health Care Services" -- " Introduction" Front Matter ....Pages i-lxxiv Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 ‘O Canada’ or ‘Freedom Road’?: Shoal Lake 40’s Mirror on Global Northern Disability Studies and Public Pedagogies (Leslie G. Roman, Sam Eldridge)....Pages 3-43 A Pedagogy of Movement and Affect: A Young Man with Autism Spectrum and Intersubjective Possibilities (Sarah Reddington)....Pages 45-63 Front Matter ....Pages 65-65 The Disability and Diagnosis Nexus: Transgender Men Navigating Mental Health Care Services (Damien W. Riggs, Clare Bartholomaeus)....Pages 67-84 Intersex Men, Masculinities and ‘Disabled’ Penises (Stephen Kerry)....Pages 85-101 Front Matter ....Pages 103-103 More Than Puddles: Disability and Masculinity in Alan Marshall’s I Can Jump Puddles (Dylan Holdsworth)....Pages 105-123 Media Representations of Disabled Veterans of the Kurdish Conflict: Continuities, Shifts and Contestations (Nurseli Yeşim Sünbüloğlu)....Pages 125-143 Formatting Disability in Contemporary Variety TV: Experiments with Masculinity in The Last Leg (Gerard Goggin)....Pages 145-170 Front Matter ....Pages 171-171 Men, Chronic Illness and the Negotiation of Masculinity (Kim Pearson, Barbara Pini)....Pages 173-190 Hearing (Dis)abled Masculinities in Australian Rules Football: Possibilities for Pleasure (Cassandra Loeser, Vicki Crowley)....Pages 191-212 Disidentification and Ingenuity in the Sex Lives of Disabled Men (Sarah Smith Rainey)....Pages 213-231 Back Matter ....Pages 233-247 The ten empirical chapters in this edited collection contribute to an understanding of masculinities through the lens of disability, and disability through the lens of masculinities. An original and well-researched study, this book takes seriously the multiple points of intersection in the making of disabled masculinities, and will be of particularly interest to scholars of disability, gender and sexualities, cultural studies and pedagogy