{"product_id":"the-womens-house-of-detention","title":"The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"crucial\" (The Advocate) and \"compelling\" (BuzzFeed) 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 individuals who inhabited its crowded cells. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Historian Hugh Ryan reconstructs the little-known lives of these incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition--and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of Detention helped define queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women's House of D to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired. ","brand":"Bold Type Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44459488641161,"sku":"9781645036654","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0376\/3057\/4729\/files\/imageloader_5cdf5d9f-6a68-4709-bbb3-ba328267bffa.jpg?v=1780864405","url":"https:\/\/thebookmarkpr.com\/products\/the-womens-house-of-detention","provider":"The Bookmark Books \u0026 Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}