Men, Chronic Illness and the Negotiation of Masculinity

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Pearson, K
Pini, B
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Cassandra Loeser; Vicki Crowley; Barbara Pini

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2017
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This chapter maps the tensions between discourses of hegemonic masculinity and disability and details men’s agency in negotiating such tensions by drawing on six semi-structured interviews with men living with Lyme Disease (LD). This chronic illness renders men unable to perform the type of embodied masculinity they mobilized as able-bodied men via their participation in paid work, relationships, leisure and sport. As a consequence male interviewees look to new ways of constituting themselves as masculine tied to a different set of bodily practices and discourses such as via complementary and alternative medicine or through a focus on emotional literacy, care and communication.

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

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Other human society not elsewhere classified

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