Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality
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Sex behind bars has long elicited intense scrutiny, fascination, and anxiety. In Criminal Intimacy, Regina Kunzel tracks these varying responses and reveals their foundational influence on modern thinking about sexuality and identity. By exploring the sexual lives of prisoners and the sexual culture of prisons over the past two centuries-along with the impact of a range of issues, including race, class, and gender; sexual violence; prisoners' rights activism; and HIV/AIDS-Kunzel discovers a world whose surprising plurality and mutability reveals the fissures and fault lines beneath modern sexuality itself.Drawing on a wide range of sources, including physicians, psychiatrists, sociologists, correctional administrators, journalists, and prisoners themselves-as well as depictions of prison life in popular culture-Kunzel argues for the importance of the prison to the history of sexuality and for the centrality of ideas about sex and sexuality to the modern prison. In the process, she deepens and complicates our understanding of sexuality in America.Winner of the American Historical Association's John Boswell Prize, the Modern Language Association's Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, the Foundation for the Scientific Study of Sexuality's Bonnie and Vern L. Bullough Award, and the Lambda Literary Award Times Higher Education "Criminal Intimacy successfully conveys the continued sidelining of the complexities of sex in prisons. For even in the face of the constant fear of violence in so many American prisons, Kunzel depicts a world in which sexual love between men, or between women, once it is given the attention it deserves, can still threaten to unsettle dominant conceptions of stable sexual identities. It is this that makes Kunzel''s book essential reading for anyone interested in learning more about the multifarious exchanges between sexuality and identity, in any context."-Times Higher Education
Introduction 11 "An Architecture Adapted to Morals" 152 "Every Prison Has Its Perverts" 453 The Problem of Prison Sex in Mid-Twentieth-Century America 774 "The Deviants Are the Heterosexuals" 1115 Rape, Race, and the Violent Prison 1496 "Lessons in Being Gay" 191Epilogue 225Notes 239Bibliography 311Index 355Illustrations follow page 190
