‘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.

doi:10.1177/1363460716652828

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Wilson, M.

Simpson, P.

Butler, Tony

Richters, J.

Yap, L.

Donovan, B.

Date

2017

Type

Journal Article

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Wilson, M. and Simpson, P. and Butler, T. and Richters, J. and Yap, L. and Donovan, B. 2017. ‘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. Sexualities: studies in culture and society. 20 (3): pp. 380-402.

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Sexualities: studies in culture and society

DOI

10.1177/1363460716652828

ISSN

1363-4607

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National Drug Research Institute (NDRI)

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/58525

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Curtin Research Publications

Abstract

© 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.