A review by courtneyfalling
The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison by Hugh Ryan

emotional informative slow-paced

4.0

This has a lot of scholarly information, but I appreciated the thorough integration of different real women and their intersections with the House of D. It makes sense from limited archives that we can't follow each individual further, but I do wish the transitions were crisper, if not full storylines to illustrate the full long-term implications of trauma from the House of D. Really interesting as a study of modern Greenwich Village's formation and for any New Yorker in particular.
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