The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison -- Hugh Ryan, Paperback Andy Serkis And to skeptics

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Published: 12/11/2003

was named one of the Top Ten Crime Novels of the year by The New York Times Book Review and was shortlisted for a CWA Dagger Award

The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison -- Hugh Ryan, Paperback Andy Serkis And to skepticsWinner, 2023 Stonewall Book Award Israel Fishman Non Fiction Book Award CrimeReads, Best True Crime Books of the Year This singular 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 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