The Jealous Institution

Male Nubility, Conjugality, Sexuality, and Discipline on the Social Margins of Imperial Brazil

Bibliographic Data

ID2108610
AuthorsPeter Beattie (0000-0001-9665-2297, Michigan State University, corresponding author), Peter M Beattie
Year2011
Volume53
Issue1
Pages180-209
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueComparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0010417510000678
OpenAlexW2169274393
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited36

In 1997, an 'attempted rebellion' erupted in the Professor Barreto Campelo Penitentiary on Itamaracá Island, Pernambuco. A journalist reported that the suspension of conjugal visits sparked a brawl in which three inmates were stabbed before guards restored order. The warden clarified that conjugal visits had been suspended after fights broke out between rival cellblocks when someone pilfered objects visitors had brought to prisoners. A woman who desired anonymity informed, 'The convicts notified us in the afternoon by way of notes that they would fight again that night. I think that the lack of contact with their female companions leaves all of the men agitated.' The warden brokered a truce with the inmates' leaders in part by promising that conjugal visits would resume the next week. The reporter concluded, almost as an afterthought, that inmates renewed protests about the overcrowding of eleven hundred inmates into a jail designed for four hundred

Anonymity · Criminology · Human sexuality · Institution · Media studies · Overcrowding · Political science · Sociology · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · Law · Sex work and related issues

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