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

Adams, Felicity; Emmerich, Fabienne

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

Adams, Felicity; Emmerich, Fabienne

Authors

Felicity Adams

Fabienne Emmerich f.emmerich@keele.ac.uk

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.

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.