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

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

Hugh Ryan

462 pages • first pub 2022 (editions) user-added

nonfiction history lgbtqia+ politics sociology challenging informative sad medium-paced
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This fascinating history of a now-demolished prison, and the women, transgender men, and gender nonconforming people who were held there– including Ethel Rosenberg, Angela Davis, and Andrea Dworkin–is a window into the policing of queerness and ra...

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