By exploring the sexual lives of prisoners and the sexual culture of prisons over the past two centuriesalong with the impact of a range of issues, including race, class, and gender sexual violence prisoners' rights activism and the HIV epidemicKunzel discovers a world whose surprising plurality and mutability reveals the fissures and fault lines beneath modern sexuality itself. Historians have held the fusion of sexual desire and identity to be the defining marker of sexual modernity, but sex behind bars, often involving otherwise heterosexual prisoners, calls those assumptions into question. InCriminal Intimacy, Regina Kunzel tracks these varying interpretations and reveals their foundational influence on modern thinking about sexuality and identity. Historically, sex behind bars has evoked radically different responses from professionals and the public alike. But it has long been the subject of intense scrutiny by both prison administrators and reformersas well as a source of fascination and anxiety for the American public. Sex is usually assumed to be a closely guarded secret of prison life.
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