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The Women'S House Of Detention: A Queer History Of A Forgotten Prison
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This Singular 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 Womens House Of Detention, A Landmark That Ushered In The Modern Era Of Womens Imprisonment, Is Now Largely Forgotten. But When It Stood In New York Citys Greenwich Village, From 1929 To 1974, It Was A Nexus For The Tens Of Thousands Of Women, Transgender Men, And Gendernonconforming People Who Inhabited Its Crowded Cells. Some Of These Inmatesangela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakurwere Famous, But The Vast Majority Were Incarcerated For The Crimes Of Being Poor And Improperly Feminine. Today, Approximately 40 Percent Of The People In Womens Prisons Identify As Queer; In Earlier Decades, That Percentage Was Almost Certainly Higher.Historian Hugh Ryan Explores The Roots Of This Crisis And Reconstructs The Littleknown Lives Of Incarcerated New Yorkers, Making A Uniquely Queer Case For Prison Abolitionand Demonstrating That By Queering The Village, The House Of D Helped Defined Queerness For The Rest Of America. From The Lesbian Communities Forged Through The Womens House Of Detention 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.Winner, 2023 Stonewall Book Awardisrael Fishman Nonfiction Book Awardcrimereads, Best True Crime Books Of The Year
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