Macho love : sex behind bars in Central America / / Jacobo Schifter
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| Autore: |
Schifter Jacobo
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| Titolo: |
Macho love : sex behind bars in Central America / / Jacobo Schifter
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (177 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 365/.6 |
| Soggetto topico: | Prisoners - Sexual behavior - Central America |
| Prisoners - Health and hygiene - Central America | |
| Homosexuality - Central America | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | First published 1999 by the Haworth Press, Inc. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-109) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Background: The Study and the Prisons; Information Sources; Admission; First Impact; The Scale of the Homosexual Phenomenon; Two Views of Homosexuality; Chapter 2. The Cachero and the Transvestite; Initiation; Sexual Practices; Cachero Love; Chapter 3. The Cachero and the Kid; Initiation; The Güila's Story; Changes in Sexual Practices; Chapter 4. Foxes; The Revolutionary Backside; Power and Sex; Chapter 5. Relationships of Power and Money; Prostitution Among Foxes; Rape |
| Chapter 6. Risk Factors in Sexual RelationshipsAlcoholism and Drug Addiction; Condom Use and Attitudes Toward Condoms; Intimacy; Chapter 7. Suggestions for Prevention; Drawbacks; The Holistic Model; Sexual Education; Accepting the Lesser Evil; Recognition of Homosexual Couples; Assistance in Detoxification; Prevention of Violence; Playing with Free Time; Microenterprises; Epilogue; Notes; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Macho Love: Sex Behind Bars in Central America is the first in-depth study of sexual culture and AIDS in Latin prisons. Psychologists, social workers, criminologists, and AIDS specialists will discover how the interplay of sexual ideals, prostitution, manipulation, resistance, and power relationships among prisoners and some staff are based on money, sex, drugs, and violence. Macho Love gives you a stirring and emotional look at the various risks and dangers lurking in the Latin American prison culture and discusses how Costa Rican and Central American prisons are improving the situation with |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Macho love |
| ISBN: | 1-56023-966-2 |
| 1-317-76588-5 | |
| 1-315-80155-8 | |
| 1-317-76589-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910453529503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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