Vulnerable Constitutions by Cynthia Barounis PAPERBACK 9781439915073

Vulnerable Constitutions\nby Cynthia Barounis\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Cynthia Barounis\nTitle: Vulnerable Constitutions\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literature: history and criticism\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S.\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781439915073\nISBN-10: 1439915075\nRRP: \u00A331.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAmputation 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 alternativeeven resistantepistemologies of queerness, disability, and masculinity. She seeks to understand the way perverse sexual.