This paper examines gender roles in prison and the outside world within the context of this article by John Coggeshall consisting of five pages. Five sources are cited in the bibliography.
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John Coggeshalls article, Ladies Behind Bars takes an interesting perspective on the phenomenon of homosexuality
within the male prison community, in terms of the way in which male and female roles are defined and the sociological impact which this has on the prison community as
a whole. Other theorists, such as Donaldson (2001) have studied the way in which sexual activity defines status and role within the prison community and the way in which male
roles are dependent not on the extent but rather the type of sexual activity; however, Coggeshall maintains that the cultural definition of gender in male prisons is more complicated than
the generally accepted division between active and passive participants, and represents the construction of a liminal culture - namely, one which is temporary and comes into being for a specific
purpose under specific circumstances. It is generally accepted that the prevalence
of homosexual behaviour in male prisons is not something which necessarily reflects the sexual orientation of the participants in a social environment which is not confined, and which does not
consist of a totally male population. Fordham (200) for example points out that homosexuality within prison culture has generally been seen as something which does not involved emotional involvement and
is therefore not to be defined within the same terms as homosexual relationships in the outside world.