The women's house of detention: a queer history of a forgotten prison
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
1645036669
ISBN 13
9781645036661
Category
Cultural Criticism
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Publication Year
2022
Publisher
Pages
ix, 357 pages
Subject
Prison abolition movements. Poor women Social conditions. Reformatories for women. Women prisoners Social conditions. Transgender prisoners. New York (State) New York
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Abstract
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.
Biblio Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-357).
Number of Copies
1
