Description
Product ID: | 9781645036661 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | The Women's House of Detention |
Subtitle: | A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison |
Authors: | Author: Hugh Ryan |
Page Count: | 368 |
Subjects: | History of the Americas, History of the Americas, Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Social & cultural history, Gender studies: women, Gay & Lesbian studies, USA, 20th century |
Description: | 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 men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates-Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur-were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women''s prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher. |
Imprint Name: | Bold Type Books |
Publisher Name: | Bold Type Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2022-06-02 |