Kathleen M. Brian, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Liberal Studies Department at Western Washington University. Brian's recent work has appeared in the Journal of Literary and Disability Studies, the History of Psychiatry, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.James W. Trent, Jr., PhD, is a Visiting Scholar in the Heller School at Brandeis University. He is author of The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform (2012) and Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States (2016).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsContributor Biographies Introduction David Serlin Part I: Is He Normal?Chapter 1. "Disability's Other: The Production of 'Normal Men' in Midcentury America"Anna Creadick Chapter 2. "Henry Darger and the Unruly Paper Dollhouse Scrapbook"Mary S. TrentChapter 3. "Black and Crazy: The Antinomian Black Male in North American Consciousness" Lawrence E. HolcombChapter 4. "Masculinity or Bust: Gender and Impairment in Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"Murray K. Simpson Part II: War, Manhood, and DisabilityChapter 5. "Marketing Disabled Manhood: Veterans and Advertising since the Civil War"John KinderChapter 6. "'Half a Man': The Symbolism and Science of Paraplegic Impotence in World War II America"Beth Linker and Whitney E. LaemmliChapter 7. "'A Blind Man's Home-Coming': Masculinity, Disability and Male Care-giving in First World War Britain"Jessica Meyer Part III: Disabled Man as "Less than a Man"Chapter 8. "Hysteria in the Male: Images of Masculinity in Late Nineteenth-Century France"Daniela S. BarberisChapter 9. "Down and Out: American Male Beggars' Presentations, 1860s-1930s"Robert BogdanChapter 10. "Death on a Silver Platter: Masculinity, Disabilities, and the Noxon Murder Trials of 1944"Ivy George and James W. Trent Jr. Part IV: Men and Boys as "Supercrips"Chapter 11. "Mythological Pedagogies; or, Suicide Clubs as Eugenic Alibi"Kathleen M. BrianChapter 12. "Making Useful Men: The Roman Rosell Institute and Asylum for the Blind, 1933-1950"Rebecca EllisChapter 13. "Weeping and Bad Hair: The Bodily Suffering of Early Christian Hell as a Threat to Masculinity"Megan HenningChapter 14. "Porgy and Dubose"Susan Schweik Chapter 15. "Ernest Hemingway: Ernest Hemingway, the Man, the Girl, and the Genius"Carolyn Slaughter Contributor Biographies Index

That masculinity is an embodied practice has become epigrammatic to researchers. But what about when that body is damaged, incomplete, disfigured, partial, or somehow other? In this breakthrough interdisciplinary collection, 17 scholars and writers

Kathleen M. Brian, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Liberal Studies Department at Western Washington University. Brian's recent work has appeared in the Journal of Literary and Disability Studies, the History of Psychiatry, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.James W. Trent, Jr., PhD, is a Visiting Scholar in the Heller School at Brandeis University. He is author of The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform (2012) and Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States (2016).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsContributor Biographies Introduction David Serlin Part I: Is He Normal?Chapter 1. "Disability's Other: The Production of 'Normal Men' in Midcentury America"Anna Creadick Chapter 2. "Henry Darger and the Unruly Paper Dollhouse Scrapbook"Mary S. TrentChapter 3. "Black and Crazy: The Antinomian Black Male in North American Consciousness" Lawrence E. HolcombChapter 4. "Masculinity or Bust: Gender and Impairment in Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"Murray K. Simpson Part II: War, Manhood, and DisabilityChapter 5. "Marketing Disabled Manhood: Veterans and Advertising since the Civil War"John KinderChapter 6. "'Half a Man': The Symbolism and Science of Paraplegic Impotence in World War II America"Beth Linker and Whitney E. LaemmliChapter 7. "'A Blind Man's Home-Coming': Masculinity, Disability and Male Care-giving in First World War Britain"Jessica Meyer Part III: Disabled Man as "Less than a Man"Chapter 8. "Hysteria in the Male: Images of Masculinity in Late Nineteenth-Century France"Daniela S. BarberisChapter 9. "Down and Out: American Male Beggars' Presentations, 1860s-1930s"Robert BogdanChapter 10. "Death on a Silver Platter: Masculinity, Disabilities, and the Noxon Murder Trials of 1944"Ivy George and James W. Trent Jr. Part IV: Men and Boys as "Supercrips"Chapter 11. "Mythological Pedagogies; or, Suicide Clubs as Eugenic Alibi"Kathleen M. BrianChapter 12. "Making Useful Men: The Roman Rosell Institute and Asylum for the Blind, 1933-1950"Rebecca EllisChapter 13. "Weeping and Bad Hair: The Bodily Suffering of Early Christian Hell as a Threat to Masculinity"Megan HenningChapter 14. "Porgy and Dubose"Susan Schweik Chapter 15. "Ernest Hemingway: Ernest Hemingway, the Man, the Girl, and the Genius"Carolyn Slaughter Contributor Biographies Index

That masculinity is an embodied practice has become epigrammatic to researchers. But what about when that body is damaged, incomplete, disfigured, partial, or somehow other? In this breakthrough interdisciplinary collection, 17 scholars and writers

Kathleen M. Brian, PhD, is a Lecturer in the Liberal Studies Department at Western Washington University. Brian's recent work has appeared in the Journal of Literary and Disability Studies, the History of Psychiatry, and the Bulletin of the History of Medicine.James W. Trent, Jr., PhD, is a Visiting Scholar in the Heller School at Brandeis University. He is author of The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform (2012) and Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Intellectual Disability in the United States (2016).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsContributor Biographies Introduction David Serlin Part I: Is He Normal?Chapter 1. "Disability's Other: The Production of 'Normal Men' in Midcentury America"Anna Creadick Chapter 2. "Henry Darger and the Unruly Paper Dollhouse Scrapbook"Mary S. TrentChapter 3. "Black and Crazy: The Antinomian Black Male in North American Consciousness" Lawrence E. HolcombChapter 4. "Masculinity or Bust: Gender and Impairment in Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!"Murray K. Simpson Part II: War, Manhood, and DisabilityChapter 5. "Marketing Disabled Manhood: Veterans and Advertising since the Civil War"John KinderChapter 6. "'Half a Man': The Symbolism and Science of Paraplegic Impotence in World War II America"Beth Linker and Whitney E. LaemmliChapter 7. "'A Blind Man's Home-Coming': Masculinity, Disability and Male Care-giving in First World War Britain"Jessica Meyer Part III: Disabled Man as "Less than a Man"Chapter 8. "Hysteria in the Male: Images of Masculinity in Late Nineteenth-Century France"Daniela S. BarberisChapter 9. "Down and Out: American Male Beggars' Presentations, 1860s-1930s"Robert BogdanChapter 10. "Death on a Silver Platter: Masculinity, Disabilities, and the Noxon Murder Trials of 1944"Ivy George and James W. Trent Jr. Part IV: Men and Boys as "Supercrips"Chapter 11. "Mythological Pedagogies; or, Suicide Clubs as Eugenic Alibi"Kathleen M. BrianChapter 12. "Making Useful Men: The Roman Rosell Institute and Asylum for the Blind, 1933-1950"Rebecca EllisChapter 13. "Weeping and Bad Hair: The Bodily Suffering of Early Christian Hell as a Threat to Masculinity"Megan HenningChapter 14. "Porgy and Dubose"Susan Schweik Chapter 15. "Ernest Hemingway: Ernest Hemingway, the Man, the Girl, and the Genius"Carolyn Slaughter Contributor Biographies Index

That masculinity is an embodied practice has become epigrammatic to researchers. But what about when that body is damaged, incomplete, disfigured, partial, or somehow other? In this breakthrough interdisciplinary collection, 17 scholars and writers