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

Vulnerable Constitutions: Queerness, Disability, and the Remaking of American ManhoodAmputation 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 damage, and