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LGBTQ+ prisoners McCall, Nina New York (State) New York New York (State) New York Greenwich Village Queer women SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General Transmasculine people Women Institutional care United States History 20th century Women prisoners Social conditions Women's rights United States History 20th centuryFilter By Subjects
LGBTQ+ prisoners McCall, Nina New York (State) New York New York (State) New York Greenwich Village Queer women SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General Transmasculine people Women Institutional care United States History 20th century Women prisoners Social conditions Women's rights United States History 20th centuryStern, Scott W.
Summary: In 1918, shortly after her eighteenth birthday, Nina McCall was told to report to the local health officer to be examined for sexually transmitted infections. Confused and humiliated, Nina did as she was told, and the health officer performed a hasty (and invasive) examination and quickly diagnosed her with gonorrhea. Insisting she could not possibly have an STI, Nina was coerced into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2018
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Summary: "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. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2022