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

ISBN: 1645036650

ISBN13: 9781645036654

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 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...

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