Hugh Ryan: The Women's House of Detention, Kartoniert / Broschiert
The Women's House of Detention
- A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison
(soweit verfügbar beim Lieferanten)
- Verlag:
- Bold Type Books, 05/2023
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781645036654
- Artikelnummer:
- 12232254
- Umfang:
- 384 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 364 g
- Maße:
- 204 x 137 mm
- Stärke:
- 27 mm
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 11.5.2023
- Hinweis
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Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
Klappentext
This "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.
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.
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.
