Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis and Scripps alum Joss Greene ’11 recently published a new book with University of California Press titled Gender Bound: Prisons, Trans Lives, and the Abolitionist Horizon. The book features over 100 interviews with formerly incarcerated trans 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 21st century?” writes Greene.
To read more about the research for this project and more about the book itself, read Greene’s article here.