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003			OCoLC
005			20231214184227.0
008			221022t20232023nyuab b 001 0 eng d
020			_a9781645036654
035			_a(OCoLC)1348380473
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050	1	4	_aHV9481 .N62 _bW6679 2023
099			_a365.43 _aR
100	1		_aRyan, Hugh, _d1978-
245	1	4	_aThe Women's House of Detention : _ba queer history of a forgotten prison / _cHugh Ryan.
250			_aFirst trade paperback edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bBold Type Books, _c2023.
264		4	_c©2023.
300			_ax[ii], 371 pages : _billustrations, map ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdacarrier.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdamedia.
500			_a"Stonewall Book Award, American Library Association"--Cover.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 317-357).
505	0		_aIntroduction: Jay Toole marks the land -- The prehistory of the Women's House of Detention (1796-1928) -- Psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers : the prison's eyes, ears, and record keepers -- Where the girls are : Greenwich Village & lesbian life -- Rosie the Riveter gets fired -- The long tail of the Drug War -- Flickers of pride -- Conformity and resistance -- The gay crowds -- Queer women get organized -- The city's search for the perfect victim -- Gay lib and Black power.
520			_a"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. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur--were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women's prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis and reconstructs the little-known lives of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition--and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of D helped defined queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women's House of Detention 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"--Provided by publisher.
610	2	0	_aWomen's House of Detention.
650		0	_aPoor women _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xSocial conditions _y20th century.
650		0	_aPrison abolition movements _zNew York (State) _zNew York _y20th century.
650		0	_aReformatories for women _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aTransgender prisoners _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xSocial conditions _y20th century.
650		0	_aWomen prisoners _zNew York (State) _zNew York _xSocial conditions _y20th century.
651		0	_aGreenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)
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