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The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Ryan, Hugh

Paperback

CriminologyGLBTQIA Studies

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 1645036650
ISBN13: 9781645036654
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Published: May 9 2023
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

This crucial (The Advocate) and compelling (BuzzFeed) history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.

The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of individuals who inhabited its crowded cells.

Historian Hugh Ryan reconstructs the little-known lives of these incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition--and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of Detention helped define queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women's House of D to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired.

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