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The Women’s House of Detention

Name: The Women's House of Detention
SKU: 14073
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$6.00

Out of stock

SKU: 14073

Category: Books, History

Attributes	Value
Condition	Good
Format	HCDJ
Author	Hugh Ryan

Description

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.