Of Studbroads and Strap-ons: The Conflation of Gender and Sexual Orientation by Female Prisoners in Texas as a Discipline of Heteropatriarchal Normality

Authors

Cathy Marston

Abstract

The author reports on her experiences in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), realizing that prisoners conflate and confuse gender and sexual orientation. I see this as problematic and argue that it constitutes what French social theorist Michel Foucault (1995) would call a “discipline of normality” inflicted by the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC).

Recommended Citation

Marston, Cathy (2014) "Of Studbroads and Strap-ons: The Conflation of Gender and Sexual Orientation by Female Prisoners in Texas as a Discipline of Heteropatriarchal Normality," Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies: Vol. 12: Iss. 1, Article 8.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.cortland.edu/wagadu/vol12/iss1/8