Mapping the Manifestations of Exclusion: Challenging the Incarceration of Queer People

Adams, Felicity; Emmerich, Fabienne

Abstract

Prisons are coercive spaces that strengthen and support the capitalist system. They are deeply gendered institutions that enforce a gender binary and perpetuate heteronormative gender performativity. These confinement spaces produce varieties of exclusion for queer people who challenge gender binaries. They are deemed both vulnerable and threatening. The purpose of this chapter is to explore how the law on prisoners’ rights reinforces gender-normative and heteronormative conceptions through the multiple manifestations of exclusion of queer prisoners: gender recognition: the systemic exclusions of transgender identities; isolation of visible and vulnerable queer prisoners; and heightened surveillance of long term relationships.

Citation

Adams, F., & Emmerich, F. (2020). Mapping the Manifestations of Exclusion: Challenging the Incarceration of Queer People. In The Queer Outside in UK Law. (1). Springer

• Acceptance Date: Apr 29, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Nov 30, 2020
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2020
• Publicly Available Date: May 26, 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Series Title: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies
• Series ISSN: 2947-9282
• Edition: 1
• Book Title: The Queer Outside in UK Law
• Chapter Number: 4
• ISBN: 978-3-030-48829-1; 978-3-030-48832-1
• Publisher URL: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030488291#:~:text=LGBTIQ%20people%20in%20the%20UK,families%20and%20self%2Didentified%20genders.