The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

From 1929 to 1974, in New York’s Greenwich Village, there stood a prison, a detention center housing women and transmasculine people that was “dangerous, vile, violent, dirty, and cruel”—but also a place that became a locus of the local queer community (among those incarcerated were Angela Davis and Andrea Dworkin). In this essential, abolitionist ...show more