Phantom Pains

Boyle, Brenda M.

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“…Such research might interrogate how the gendered experiences of an individual with an acquired injury, who had previously had access to a nondisabled identity, differ from those of an individual with a congenital disability (Gerschick, 2000(Gerschick, , p. 1265. Are there different forms, or "levels", of gendered "otherness" ascribed to individuals with distinct styles of physical, sensory or cognitive functioning (Boyle, 2005)? Do gendered hierarchies relating to disability operate within the perceptions and performances of disabled people themselves?…”

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“…Historical work examining the aftermath of military conflicts, for instance, has documented how particular visible, physical disabilities could act as corporeal evidence of fortitude, as "war wounds" that viscerally exhibited the heroic selfsacrifice of the returned serviceman. Physical disabilities, within these contexts, could establish gendered hierarchies both over those who had "shirked" their patriotic duty by avoiding combat (Gagen, 2007), as well as those who had acquired mental illnesses as a consequence of their wartime experiences, which were commonly interpreted as revealing personal weakness, rather than valiant heroism (Boyle, 2005). In a very different context, anthropologist James Staples (2011) recently conducted ethnographic research designed to capture the gendered meanings of disability within particular regions of contemporary India.…”

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Disabled Masculinities: A Review and Suggestions for Further Research

Barrett

2014

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This article provides an overview of the existing sociological literature relating to disabled masculinities, a field of enquiry that has undergone substantial development over the past two decades. I contend that previous studies have insightfully uncovered the social forces that have established a “dilemma of disabled masculinity” within contemporary Western societies, as well as the complex, contextualised and multiple ways in which disabled men negotiate this dilemma. To foster the further development of the field, I suggest three potentially productive lines for future enquiry. Specifically, I support greater attention to the issue of comparative diversity between impairment categories, a consideration of the generative role that disability may have in relation to masculinity, and more sustained enquiry into how changing constructions of masculinity inflect the lives of disabled men.

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Disabled Masculinities: A Review and Suggestions for Further Research

Barrett

2014

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Go figure! Public pedagogies, invisible impairments and the performative paradoxes of visibility as veracity

Roman

2009

International Journal of Inclusive Education

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This article asks how public pedagogical texts mobilise particular meanings about whose bodies/minds matter or figure? How do they articulate particular affective investments, desires, and values related to our everyday understanding of invisible and visible impairments, and the ways in which discourses of 'normalcy' are taught? The author examines three examples of public pedagogy or media campaigns to educate the public about particular invisible impairments experienced predominantly by women. It theorises how women with invisible impairments are seen to lack veracity in Western visual cultures that both equate and privilege the visible with truthfulness and authenticity. The paper considers, after Agamben, the 'zones of exception' created by the in/visible hierarchy for disability rights claims and human rights struggles for women with invisible impairments.

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Wounded Warriors of the Future Disability Hierarchy in Avatar and Source Code

Schalk

2020

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies

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The article analyzes the representation of disabled veterans in James Cameron’s Avatar and Duncan Jones’s Source Code. The argument is that these two films use the figure of the heroic, technologically enhanced, white disabled veteran man to alleviate cultural anxieties, fears, and guilt about veterans and disabled people in the contemporary United States. In doing so, however, Avatar and Source Code perpetuate a disability hierarchy that reinforces a variety of oppressive cultural norms. The article, therefore, demonstrates how the films reflect the differential valuation and treatment of different kinds of disabled people in American culture at large via the genre of science fiction and its technological imaginative possibilities.

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Phantom Pains

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Disabled Masculinities: A Review and Suggestions for Further Research

Disabled Masculinities: A Review and Suggestions for Further Research

Go figure! Public pedagogies, invisible impairments and the performative paradoxes of visibility as veracity

Wounded Warriors of the Future Disability Hierarchy in Avatar and Source Code

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