- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction. Certain Failures: Representing the Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
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Part One Defining the Problem -
Part Two Being a Mother from Inside -
Part Three Intimacy, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Inside -
19 Untitled -
20 Analyzing Prison Sex: Reconciling Self-Expression with Safety -
21 Who Said Women Can’t Get Along? -
22 Sorry -
23 The Chase -
24 Why?: A Letter to My Lover -
25 Gender, Sexuality, and Family Kinship Networks -
26 Getting Free -
27 My Name Is June Martinez -
28 King County (WA) Gender Identity Regulations -
29 Mother -
30 Daddy Black Man -
31 Watershed -
Part Four Creating and Maintaining Intellectual, Spiritual, and Creative Life Inside -
Part Five Struggling for Health Care -
Part Six Serving Time, Sentenced and Unsentenced -
Part Seven Struggling for Rights -
Part Eight Being Out - Contributors
- Index
Why?: A Letter to My Lover
Why?: A Letter to My Lover
- Chapter:
- (p.129) 24 Why?: A Letter to My Lover
- Source:
- Interrupted Life
- Author(s):
Sheena M. King
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
In this chapter about homosexuality and same-sex relationships, the author shares her innermost feelings for a fellow prisoner named Charlotte. She asks why they had to meet and fall deeply, madly and ridiculously in love, in prison; when they had shared their minds, hearts, hopes, dreams, and desires and decided they were best friends, why they enhanced it by exploring each other's bodies and merging their souls; why they could not deny mutual attraction; why they had to make love in closets, bathroom stalls, in secret rooms, in showers and over toilets, with quick touches in corners; why they jumped off the cliff and gladly fell into the abyss of love when they would have to separate; or why the pain does not stop.
Keywords: homosexuality, same-sex relationship, prisoner, love, mutual attraction
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction. Certain Failures: Representing the Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
-
Part One Defining the Problem -
Part Two Being a Mother from Inside -
Part Three Intimacy, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Inside -
19 Untitled -
20 Analyzing Prison Sex: Reconciling Self-Expression with Safety -
21 Who Said Women Can’t Get Along? -
22 Sorry -
23 The Chase -
24 Why?: A Letter to My Lover -
25 Gender, Sexuality, and Family Kinship Networks -
26 Getting Free -
27 My Name Is June Martinez -
28 King County (WA) Gender Identity Regulations -
29 Mother -
30 Daddy Black Man -
31 Watershed -
Part Four Creating and Maintaining Intellectual, Spiritual, and Creative Life Inside -
Part Five Struggling for Health Care -
Part Six Serving Time, Sentenced and Unsentenced -
Part Seven Struggling for Rights -
Part Eight Being Out - Contributors
- Index