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

306 Pages·2017·3.613 MB·English

by  Cassandra Loeser,Vicki Crowley,Barbara Pini (eds.)

D I S A B I L I T YA N D
M ASC U L I N I T I E S
Corporeality, Pedagogy and the Critique of Otherness
EDITED BY CASSANDRA LOESER,
VICKI CROWLEY, BARBARA PINI
Disability and Masculinities
Cassandra Loeser • Vicki Crowley • Barbara Pini
Editors
Disability and
Masculinities
Corporeality, Pedagogy and the Critique of
Otherness
Editors
Cassandra Loeser Vicki Crowley
Teaching Innovation Unit Communication, Information Studies and
University of South Australia Languages
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia University of South Australia
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Barbara Pini
School of Humanities, Languages
and Social Science
Griffith University
Nathan, Queensland, Australia
ISBN 978-1-137-53476-7 ISBN 978-1-137-53477-4 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53477-4
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Cassandra dedicates this book to her parents Lynette and Deane Loeser and
to her much loved grandmothers Lena Porter and Joy Sarre. This dedication
is extended, especially, to her brother Sam. She also gives thanks to the
unwavering motivation of her beautiful twin daughters, Imogen and
Zaylei.
Barbara dedicates this book to her brother Michael Pini.
And Vicki writes:
For us all—those who have come before and those still to come—we
continue to learn.
Contents
List of Figures xi
List of Table xiii
Foreword xv
Introductory Essay: Disability and Masculinities:
Corporeality, Pedagogy and the Critique of Otherness xxv
Cassandra Loeser, Vicki Crowley, and Barbara Pini
Part I Of Pedagogy 1
1 ‘ O Canada’ or ‘Freedom Road’?: Shoal Lake 40’s Mirror
on Global Northern Disability Studies and Public
Pedagogies 3
Leslie G. Roman and Sam Eldridge
2 A Pedagogy of Movement and Affect: A Young Man
with Autism Spectrum and Intersubjective Possibilities 45
Sarah Reddington
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viii Contents
Part II Corporeality 65
3 Th e Disability and Diagnosis Nexus: Transgender
Men Navigating Mental Health Care Services 67
Damien W. Riggs and Clare Bartholomaeus
4 I ntersex Men, Masculinities and ‘Disabled’ Penises 85
Stephen Kerry
Part III (Re)presentation 103
5 M ore Than Puddles: Disability and Masculinity in
Alan Marshall’s I Can Jump Puddles 105
Dylan Holdsworth
6 M edia Representations of Disabled Veterans of the
Kurdish Conflict: Continuities, Shifts and 
Contestations 125
Nurseli Yeşim Sünbüloğlu
7 F ormatting Disability in Contemporary Variety TV:
Experiments with Masculinity in The Last Leg 145
Gerard Goggin
Part IV and Critical Self-Stylisation 171
8 M en, Chronic Illness and the Negotiation of
Masculinity 173
Kim Pearson and Barbara Pini
Conten ts ix
9 H earing (Dis)abled Masculinities in Australian Rules
Football: Possibilities for Pleasure 191
Cassandra Loeser and Vicki Crowley
10 D isidentification and Ingenuity in the Sex Lives of
Disabled Men 213
Sarah Smith Rainey
About the Contributors 233
Index 237
List of Figures
Fig. 1.1 Shoal Lake 40 Winnepeg’s Diversion Blocks SL40 from
access to both reserve lands and the Trans-Canada
highway 11
Fig. 1.2 Museum of Canadian Human Rights Violations challenging
Canadian hypocrisy 20
Fig. 1.3 Shoal Lake 40 Museum of Human Rights Violations
(MHRV) Brochure p. 1–2, excerpt 21
Fig. 1.4 Water bottle storage handling facility 22
Fig. 1.5 Stewart Redsky comforting junior chief and council
members upon on the announcement of Canada’s
refusal to commit to the construction of ‘Freedom Road’
on June 25, 2015 26
Fig. 1.6 #BoilNoMore 30
Fig. 1.7 The future site of ‘Freedom Road’ 31
Fig. 2.1 Typical boy 53
Fig. 2.2 Leo’s self-portrait 54
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List of Table
Table 8.1 Description of interview sample 177
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