Oct

18

RIHS Lecture: A Queer History of the Women’s House of Detention

Date

Tue

,

Oct 18

Time

6:30 pm

-

7:30 pm

How

Virtual

Type

Talk

Location

Online

Partner(s)

New York Public Library

Hugh Ryan, historian and author of The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, sheds light on this Greenwich Village Landmark that, from 1929 to 1974, incarcerated many women simply for the crimes of being poor and insufficiently feminine.

Date

Tue

,

Oct 18

Time

6:30 pm

-

7:30 pm

How

Virtual

Type

Talk

Location

Online

Partner(s)

New York Public Library

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