Prison Masculinities /edited by Don Sabo, Terry A. Kupers, and Willie LondonDonald F. Sabo, Terry Allen Kupers, Willie James London Temple University Press, 2001 - 279 páginas This book explores the frightening ways our prisons mirror the worst aspects of society-wide gender relations. It is part of the growing research on men and masculinities. The collection is unusual in that it combines contributions from activists, academics, and prisoners. The opening section, which features an essay by Angela Davis, focuses on the historical roots of the prison system, cultural practices surrounding gender and punishment, and the current expansion of corrections into the "prison-industrial complex." The next section examines the dominant or subservient roles that men play in prison and the connections between this hierarchy and male violence. Another section looks at the spectrum of intimate relationships behind bars, from rape to friendship, and another at physical and mental health. The last section is about efforts to reform prisons and prison masculinities, including support groups for men. It features an essay about prospects for post-release success in the community written by a man who, after doing time in Soledad and San Quentin, went on to get a doctorate in counseling. The contributions from prisoners include an essay on enforced celibacy by Mumia Abu-Jamal, as well as fiction and poetry on prison health policy, violence, and intimacy. The creative contributions were selected from the more than 200 submissions received from prisoners. Author note: Don Sabo, Professor of Social Sciences at D'Youville College in Buffalo, is author or editor of five books, most recently, with David Gordon, Men's Health and Illness: Gender, Power, and the Body and, with Michael Messner, Sex, Violence, and Power in Sports: Rethinking Masculinity. Sabo has appeared on The Today Show, Oprah, and Donahue. Terry A. Kupers, M.D., a psychiatrist, teaches at the Wright Institute in Berkeley. He is the author of four books, editor of a fifth. His latest books are Prison Madness: The Mental Health Crisis Behind Bars and What We Must Do About It and Revisioning Men's Lives: Gender, Intimacy, and Power. Kupers has served as an expert witness in more than a dozen cases on conditions of confinement and mental health services. Willie London, a published poet, is General Editor of the prison publication Elite Expressions. He is currently an inmate at Eastern Corrections. For nine years he was a prisoner at Attica. |
Contenido
GENDER AND THE POLITICS OF PUNISHMENT | 3 |
Historical Roots and Contemporary Trends | 19 |
FROM | 35 |
CRIME POLITICS AND COMMUNITY SINCE | 46 |
THE ELEMENTS OF CRIME | 54 |
The Social Construction of Prison Masculinities | 59 |
MASCULINITIES CRIME AND PRISON | 67 |
PRIVACY SUFFERING | 93 |
ONCE MORE I DREAM | 153 |
IN NORTH AMERICAN PRISONS | 173 |
DELIBERATE INDIFFERENCE | 184 |
NIGHT CRIER | 198 |
NOTES ON WORKING WITH | 207 |
THE FELLOWSHIP | 218 |
THE ANTIEXPLOITS OF MEN AGAINST SEXISM | 224 |
FACILITATING THERAPY GROUPS | 230 |
MEN | 103 |
Sexualities Sexual Violence and Intimacy | 109 |
A MILLION JOCKERS PUNKS AND queens | 118 |
CAGED AND CELIBATE | 139 |
BE NOT SO QUICK TO JUDGE | 145 |
LITIGATION ADVOCACY AND SELFRESPECT | 239 |
PROSPECTS FOR POSTRELEASE SUCCESS | 255 |
For Further Reading | 265 |
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