Episode 1: Introduction & Histories on Gender and Sexuality and the Carceral State with Jen Manion

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In this episode, I give scholarly background and context to my capstone project. For historical background and scholarship, I invited Jen Manion to discuss the histories of sexuality and the carceral state. The interview is from May 25, 2021.

Jen Manion is Professor of History and Sexuality, Women’s and Gender Studies at Amherst College whose work examines the role of gender and sexuality in American life. Manion is author of Liberty’s Prisoners: Carceral Culture in Early America which received the inaugural Mary Kelley Best Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic. Their most recent book, Female Husbands: A Trans History was a finalist for the OAH Lawrence Levine Award for the best book in U.S. cultural history, and recipient of the best book prize by the British Association of Victorian Studies.

Other works mentioned in this episode:

Angela Davis. Abolition Democracy. Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2005; Are Prisons Obsolete? New York: Seven Stories Press, 2003.

Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock. Queer (in)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. Boston: Beacon Press, 2012.

Eric A. Stanley, and Nat Smith, eds. Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex. Expanded Second Edition. Chico: AK Press, 2015.

Regina Kunzel. Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

The Roundtable Discussion on Histories of Sexuality and the Carceral State with Regina Kunzel, Jen Manion, Sarah Haley, Scott de Orio and Elias Vitulli: