Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California,听Davis听and 61传媒alum Joss听Greene 鈥�11 recently published a new book with University of California Press titled听Gender Bound: Prisons, Trans Lives, and the Abolitionist Horizon. The book features over 100 interviews with formerly incarcerated听trans people, archive research, policy makers, advocated, and more.听听
鈥淢y 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.听Now the question was: how was it possible that prisons approached gender-nonconformity one way in the 1970鈥檚, in a different way throughout the 1980鈥檚 and 1990鈥檚, and in still a different way in the 21st听century?鈥澨齱rites听Greene.听听
To read more about the research for this project and more about the book itself, read Greene鈥檚 article听.听听