{"product_id":"the-womens-house-of-detention-a-queer-history-of-a-forgotten-prison-1645036650","title":"The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1645036650\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Ryan, Hugh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.The Womens House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of womens imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York Citys 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 Womens 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51972511695136,"sku":"NEW1645036650","price":13.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-womens-house-of-detention-a-queer-history-of-a-forgotten-prison-1645036650","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}