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Author Kunzel, Regina G., 1959-

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

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.7086927 K964c 2008    ---  Available
Description xi, 371 p., [12] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography 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.
Subject Prisoners -- Sexual behavior -- United States.
Prison violence -- United States.
Rape -- United States.
ISBN 0226462269 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780226462264 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000042196843

 
    
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