Prison, Gender and Sexuality

Abstract

A group of women prisoners in the Tepepan prison gave us the key to understand how gender and sexuality work in the penitentiary system where life inside the prison exposes the rules of conduct and a deference to the norm. The separation of sex from gender, allowing the later to proliferate, has given us the opportunity to understand shifts in identity where anatomical fates are disrupted to give way to a disident, abject and marginal sexuality.