Criminal Intimacy - Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality

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Summary

Explores the sexual lives of prisoners and the sexual culture of prisons over the years, along with the impact of various issues, including race, class, and gender, sexual violence, prisoners' rights activism, and the HIV epidemic. This title argues for the importance of the prison to the history of sexuality.

Product details

• Authors: Regina Kunzel, Regina G. Kunzel, Kunzel Regina
• Assisted by: Regina Kunzel (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2008
• EAN: 9780226462264
• ISBN: 978-0-226-46226-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, United States of America, USA, Sociology: sexual relations, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, Penology and punishment, Offenders, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality