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

by Hugh Ryan

Book Overview

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 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 women, transgender...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1645036650
• ISBN13: 9781645036654
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Bold Type Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.2"