자료유형  

 학위논문

Control Number  

0016932431

International Standard Book Number  

9798380382724

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

840

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Blakeney, Tyler L.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : University of California, Berkeley., 2023

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023

Physical Description  

1 online resource(248 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-03, Section: B.

General Note  

Advisor: Lucey, Michael.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Berkeley, 2023.

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This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

Summary, Etc.  

요약While touring the women's prison of Saint-Lazare in Paris in the early 1930s, the author Fracis Carco was surprised to find a respectable looking young woman in the menagerie, a set of tiny cages initially set up for the children sent to the prison. At the time of Carco's tour, the cages of the menagerie were no longer used for children, or as a special punishment for the worst prisoners. In fact, a stay in the menagerie was a special privilege accorded to certain well-behaved prisoners. Even though the cages are tiny, like the cell in a zoo outfitted only with a bed and a chamber pot, the warden says, "the women are happy with them, because that way they can escape the promiscuity of the dormitories and they can get their act together better." As the warden's comment suggests, sex between the prisoners seems to be the prevailing norm within the prison. When the tour group encounters an explicit graffito later ("My heart and my ass for Mimi B. -Fernande"), the warden asks a prison guard to erase it. The attendant replies flippantly, "Oh please! I'd be stuck doing that forever! I'd wear out my paws. With these females here, I'd have to start over every day."These two anecdotes reveal some of the key issues at the heart of my dissertation, titled Vicious Inclinations: Gay Sex and State Power in Prisons from 1830 to the present. Although we often think of sex between prisoners as something highly regulated by the institutions of incarceration, these examples show the limits of that regulation, indeed even sometimes the complete indifference of the guards to sex between prisoners. They also that institutions of incarceration themselves are not monolithic but comprised of multiple different nodes of power which may each have different motivations and actions. In this case, the warden's power is by no means absolute, and she is unable to mobilize the guard to repress this blatant symbol of sex between the prisoners at her institution. At the same time, even the most horrific and repressive inventions of the disciplinary imagination can be twisted, turned, and used to the prisoners' own ends. In the case of the Saint-Lazare prison, animal cages used to hold children have become a space where some prisoners can get privacy from the overwhelming and sometimes dangerous social dynamics of public dormitories; the very walls of the prison used to hold the prisoners have become the canvas to express same-sex love. Ultimately, my dissertation shows that the relationship between power and sexuality in prison is incredibly complex, and stands outside of any binary construction of power in which guards and wardens simply exert repressive power over prisoners.My dissertation seeks to take examples of the lived experience of prisoners who had sex with each other as the basis for rethinking how state power and sexuality relate to one another. It has three main goals. First, I seek to uncover and imagine the experiences of individuals who had same-sex sex in prisons from 1830 to the present in what Foucault calls their "infinitesimal materiality." Far from being hidden, the archive is full of accounts and traces of same-sex sex in prisons throughout this period. In fact, same-sex sexuality is at the very origin of the cellular design and structure of the modern prison, as my work on the July Monarchy demonstrates. My goal is to trace through time the way people talked about and conceptualized prison sex, and to imagine to the extent that we can the lived experience of individuals who had sex with members of the same sex in prison. My corpus is drawn from archival sources that give us a sense of the historical realities of prison life (published works by prison doctors, internal official documents like surveys of prison wardens, conference presentations by criminal sexologists, law enforcement reports, along with the rare accounts from prisoners themselves that become more common after the 1970s). Literary sources, both fictional and nonfictional, also play a key role in my work, because they allow us to analyze the workings of power at the level of individual. Even if they are not always aiming to recount events that actually occurred, they often can give us insight into both a material truth (about the experiences of prisoners who had same-sex sex) and a theoretical truth about the functioning of power.Through this exploration of these lived experiences, I seek to elaborate a theoretical account of how individuals live out their sex lives within the constraints of state power. I argue. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest).

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

French literature.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

LGBTQ studies.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Sexuality.

Index Term-Uncontrolled  

France

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Homosexuality

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Prisons

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Queer theory

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University of California, Berkeley French

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Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-03B.

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Dissertation Abstract International

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