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• Author/Creator:Barounis, Cynthia, 1981- author.
  
• 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
  

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  • Call Number: PS228.M37 B37 2019 (LC)
    
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• 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"--
  
• Other formats:Online version: Barounis, Cynthia, 1981- Vulnerable constitutions. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2019
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes 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.
  
• Subjects:American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
  Masculinity in literature.
  Canon (Literature)
  American literature.
  Canon (Literature)
  Masculinity in literature.