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Criminal intimacy shows how the inside world of prison culture both reflects and shapes the outside worlds understanding of sexuality in prose that is lucid economical and often elegant kunzel offers a sophisticated and persuasive argument that complicates the dominant historical narrative about the emergence of modern homosexuality. 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. This book will change the way you look at modern sexuality journal of american history stephen robertson 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 . In criminal intimacy re but it has long been the subject of intense scrutiny by both prison administrators and reformers as well as a source of fascination and anxiety for the american public historically sex behind bars has evoked radically different responses from professionals and the public alike