Criminal intimacy : prison and the uneven history of modern American sexuality / Regina Kunzel.

  • Kunzel, Regina G., 1959-
Date:
2008
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Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Physical description

xi, 371 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-354) and index.

Contents

"An architecture adapted to morals" -- "Every prison has its perverts" -- The problem of prison sex in the mid-twentieth century -- "The deviants are the heterosexuals" -- Rape, race, and the violent prison -- "Lessons in being gay" -- Epilogue.

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    History of Medicine
    JQP.6
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  • 9780226462264
  • 0226462269