Open AccessTeaching Gender as Social Structure: “Walking While Trans” as Illustration
Author(s) -
Jillian Crocker
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
radical teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1941-0832
pISSN - 0191-4847
DOI - 10.5195/rt.2021.960
Subject(s) - harassment , phenomenon , sociology , focus (optics) , social phenomenon , mathematics education , gender studies , pedagogy , epistemology , psychology , aesthetics , social science , social psychology , art , philosophy , physics , optics
This teaching note offers a description of the analysis of features of the phenomenon of police harassment of trans and gender non-conforming folks as an illustration of gender as a social structure and related course concepts, with a focus on how the use of this illustration enhances student understanding of ideas central to the course.