{"product_id":"the-womens-house-of-detention-hugh-ryan-9781645036661","title":"The Women's House of Detention","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHistorian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis of queer and trans incarceration, connecting misogyny, racism, state-sanctioned sexual violence, colonialism, sex work, and the failures of prison reform. And he reconstructs the little-known lives of hundreds of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition in the process. From the lesbian communities forged through the House of D to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and so much more-the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hugh Ryan","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43176684978419,"sku":"9781645036661","price":42.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/products\/9781645036661.jpg?v=1662088012","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-womens-house-of-detention-hugh-ryan-9781645036661","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}