#Women's Prison

[newyorkthegoldenage]

At the Women's House of Detention, three inmates look out at freedom, 1941.

Photo: Irving Haberman via H Images/Getty Images/The Nation

[i-8-ur-soul]

Mexican women from Women's Declaration International protesting outside of the courts of Mexico City because a prisoner in Chalco was raped by a male inmate that self identifies as a woman.

The sign reads: "Get men out of women's jails".

You can sign a Change petition here to demand Mexican authorities that justice is delivered to the rapist and that they enforce our constitution so that imprisoned women are granted the right to serve their time in prison separate from men.

[histonics]

A warden at the Women's City Prison and his charges, New Orleans, 1963

[bitter69uk]

“When Monroe fever reached epidemic proportions during the fifties, every studio in town tried to pawn off its own cut-rate blonde bombshell. England even got into the act with Diana Dors. Monroe herself had been groomed to compete with Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable, though her screen persona owed a larger debt to Jean Harlow and Mae West. Like these spiritual sisters, Monroe’s style was so exaggerated that her imitators came off looking like female impersonators by comparison. Most ended up in films of the Bikini Beach Girl Meets the Monster variety or as props for the leering humour of a second banana.”

Accompanied by glamour shots of Jayne Mansfield, Barbara Nichols, Sheree North and Mamie Van Doren, author Penny Stallings’ dismissive assessment in her 1978 book Flesh and Fantasy is typical of its time – and grossly unfair. (And Bikini Beach Girl Meets the Monster sounds like a movie I would enthusiastically devour). In retrospect, many of these supposed “failed Marilyns” were in fact charismatic, gorgeous, distinctive and talented screen presences in their own rights, and merit a kinder appraisal. Consider one of Stallings’ examples, pinup and b-movie bad girl Cleo Moore (Cleouna Moore, 31 October 1924 – 25 October 1973) who was born on this day 100 years ago. Her intensely likable tough, brassy and wisecracking persona arguably owes more to Harlow than Marilyn. She is irresistible in Women’s Prison (1955), which I showed at the Lobotomy Room cinema club in 2022. Many of the lurid low-budget films Moore made with director Hugo Haas (with titles like One Girl’s Confession (1953), Bait (1954) and The Other Woman (1954)) are seemingly now in public domain and circulating on YouTube. (I’ve seen and enjoyed Hold Back Tomorrow (1955) and Hit and Run (1957)). Moore retired from films in 1957, married a multimillionaire (get it, girl!) and died tragically young of heart failure.

[kathleenkatmary]

HAPPY NOIRVEMBER!

FILM NOIR STARS :: AUDREY TOTTER

The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Lady in the Lake (1946) The Unsuspected (1947) High Wall (1947) Alias Nick Beal (1949) The Set-Up (1949) Tension (1949) Under the Gun (1951) FBI Girl (1951) The Sellout (1952) Man in the Dark (1953) Women's Prison (1955) A Bullet for Joey (1955)

[wynandcore]

Saw the sonic 3 trailer are you telling me the movie based on Sonic Adventure 2 is Not anti-military??? No anti-authority theming here?? Nothing?? The game where a kid gets gunned down? Where Shadow’s grief and hate for humanity is BECAUSE of the military?? Where Sonic runs from the cops and is consistently annoyed at their existence?

[reasonsforhope]

Legal protection against domestic violence has become widespread

"This chart shows the share of the global population living in countries that criminally sanction domestic violence or provide protection against it. The data comes from the World Bank’s Women, Business and the Law project.

Throughout the decades, the legislation on domestic violence has increased markedly. Until the 1990s, less than 1% of the global population in countries was legally protected from it, with only Canada, Sweden, and Ireland providing such safeguards. And as recently as 20 years ago, 80% of people lived in countries without legal penalties for domestic violence.

But by 2023, this had more than reversed, and 9 in 10 people lived in countries with legal measures to combat domestic violence. This shift highlights an increased recognition around the world that domestic violence is common, especially against women."

-via Our World in Data, September 19, 2024

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Note: This really puts in perspective just how much and how quickly attitudes on domestic and gendered violence are changing. Look at that graph! Look at it!!

Thirty years ago, there was only a single country in the entire world that thought hitting your spouse should be a crime, and had acted on that. (It was Ireland, go Ireland.) That is a world of difference from where we are now.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Jefferson Market with the hulking Women’s House of Detention behind (now demolished for a park), 1938. From the barred, open windows, the inmates would hurl obscenities at passersby.

Photo: Berenice Abbott via NYPL

[futurechancer]

thank you women

[mihotose]

[whereserpentswalk]

Why do trans identified males need to be in women’s prisons? Self identification aside, if a male is unsafe around other males, why wouldn’t females also be unsafe around males?

Why do you think males fluctuate between being being a genuine threat and completely harmless depending on who is raising the concern?

In other words, why are males are a genuine threat when trans women complain about being put in men’s prisons, but completely harmless when cis women complain about having trans women in their prisons?

I don't believe in prisons, and I don't believe in any gender segregation. This is like asking weather or not a certain group should be in a whites only slave plantation for me. The entire system is fucked.

Women's spaces should not exist, anywhere. That is a requirement for trans rights.

Prisons should not exist, anywhere. That is a requirement for human rights.

[yuri-for-businesswomen]

everytime an underprivileged or mentally ill woman kills a man who wanted to use her for sex or otherwise sexually exploit her im like fuck around and find out. good riddance 👋

[blookywooky]

Y'all know what day it isss..

SORRY WOMEN...

Also happy birthday Luvey! 🥳🥳

[sunfortune]

my perfect ending for katara was basically inejs ending in six of crows where she leaves to hunt slavers on the ships (but she always comes back <3). so like painted lady episode but larger scale enacting justice for people in the world who have no one. bc getting rid of the fire lord wasn’t just gonna fix every thing. i think that would’ve slayed soo hard and been perfect for her. even a tiny allusion to it would’ve been everything. but whatever. i Don’t care. it doesn’t bother me that she just got married and stayed home. after having to mother everyone for 3 books. it’s fine. i’m an adult. explodes .

[quillkiller]

all im saying is ive never seen someone criticize those marylily or dorlily fanart/fics where they’re harrys mothers and theres no james in sight