‘You’re a woman, a convenience, a cat, a poof, a thing, an idiot’: Transgender women negotiating sexual experiences in men’s prisons in Australia
© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. We examine the lived experiences of transgender women in Australian men’s and women’s prisons. We draw on Alice Ristroph’s sexual punishments framework to discuss the diversity and ambiguities of sexual experiences reported by participants, and argue for a need to move...
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| author | Wilson, M. Simpson, P. Butler, Tony Richters, J. Yap, L. Donovan, B. |
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| description | © 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. We examine the lived experiences of transgender women in Australian men’s and women’s prisons. We draw on Alice Ristroph’s sexual punishments framework to discuss the diversity and ambiguities of sexual experiences reported by participants, and argue for a need to move beyond the dominant narrative of prison rape. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-585252017-11-24T05:46:55Z ‘You’re a woman, a convenience, a cat, a poof, a thing, an idiot’: Transgender women negotiating sexual experiences in men’s prisons in Australia Wilson, M. Simpson, P. Butler, Tony Richters, J. Yap, L. Donovan, B. © 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. We examine the lived experiences of transgender women in Australian men’s and women’s prisons. We draw on Alice Ristroph’s sexual punishments framework to discuss the diversity and ambiguities of sexual experiences reported by participants, and argue for a need to move beyond the dominant narrative of prison rape. 2017 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58525 10.1177/1363460716652828 Sage Publications restricted |
| spellingShingle | Wilson, M. Simpson, P. Butler, Tony Richters, J. Yap, L. Donovan, B. ‘You’re a woman, a convenience, a cat, a poof, a thing, an idiot’: Transgender women negotiating sexual experiences in men’s prisons in Australia |
| title | ‘You’re a woman, a convenience, a cat, a poof, a thing, an idiot’: Transgender women negotiating sexual experiences in men’s prisons in Australia |
| title_full | ‘You’re a woman, a convenience, a cat, a poof, a thing, an idiot’: Transgender women negotiating sexual experiences in men’s prisons in Australia |
| title_fullStr | ‘You’re a woman, a convenience, a cat, a poof, a thing, an idiot’: Transgender women negotiating sexual experiences in men’s prisons in Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘You’re a woman, a convenience, a cat, a poof, a thing, an idiot’: Transgender women negotiating sexual experiences in men’s prisons in Australia |
| title_short | ‘You’re a woman, a convenience, a cat, a poof, a thing, an idiot’: Transgender women negotiating sexual experiences in men’s prisons in Australia |
| title_sort | ‘you’re a woman, a convenience, a cat, a poof, a thing, an idiot’: transgender women negotiating sexual experiences in men’s prisons in australia |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58525 |