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Joss Greene ’11 Publishes New Book on How the California Prison System Attempts to Manage Gender Nonconformity

Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California,Davisand 91AVԭalum JossGreene ’11 recently published a new book with University of California Press titledGender Bound: Prisons, Trans Lives, and the Abolitionist Horizon. The book features over 100 interviews with formerly incarceratedtrans people, archive research, policy makers, advocated, and more.

“My project was no longer a story of an always-gender-repressive prison system that had just begun doing fluid and progressive things in the past few years.Now the question was: how was it possible that prisons approached gender-nonconformity one way in the 1970’s, in a different way throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s, and in still a different way in the 21stcentury?”writesGreene.

To read more about the research for this project and more about the book itself, read Greene’s article.

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