How Long to Read The Women's House of Detention

How Long Does it Take to Read The Women's House of Detention?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 22 minutes to read The Women's House of Detention by Hugh Ryan

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 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 Shakur—were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women’s prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher. Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis and reconstructs the little-known lives of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition—and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of D helped defined queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women’s House of Detention to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired. Winner, 2023 Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award CrimeReads, Best True Crime Books of the Year

How long is The Women's House of Detention?

The Women's House of Detention by Hugh Ryan is 375 pages long, and a total of 95,625 words.

This makes it 127% the length of the average book. It also has 117% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Women's House of Detention Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 42 minutes to read The Women's House of Detention aloud.

What Reading Level is The Women's House of Detention?

The Women's House of Detention is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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