ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the historical development of scholarly work on masculinities and disability, paying attention to conceptual shifts in thinking on this relationship. In doing so, it challenges a view that the only gender identity options open to men with impairments are as ‘failed’, ‘spoiled’ or in need of reformulation. Through consideration of how masculinities and disability studies intersect, and using case-study examples of learning impairment and ‘cyborg bodies’, we highlight how connections of similarity and difference around disability and gender are complex and interact to support and reinforce, but also to challenge and undermine, each other.
