This research explored the ways physical disability impacts the lives of men, their immediate circle of family and friends and the Ghanaian society. The study sought to address the equalization of rights/opportunities and recognition to ‘others’ outside the ‘normal’ stipulated life where men are expected to be ‘masculine’ by possessing a body type with access to certain opportunities like work/employment to facilitate their stipulated masculine duties as providers. And women are expected to be caregivers who receive the provision from these men. Thus, men without most of these prescribed features tend to be tagged ‘women’ and vice versa. Through interviews with men with disability, it is suggested that a man isn’t a superior category (group) over a woman but an “empty overflowing” (Scott 1986, Lorber 1994) category with different multidimensional sub sections. Focusing on a hegemonic (binary) framework; that tends to ignore existing
intersectional factors like class, etc. is likely to maintain the possible inequalities within each category. Thus, the need for reconstruction of certain dominant gender (masculine) norms that have been normalised over time; especially
in relation to men with physical disability.