Abstract
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.
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Baca Zinn, Maxine and Bonnie Thornton Dill. 1994. Women of Color in U.S. Society. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
Carpenter, Leonore and R. Barrett Marshall. 2017. “Walking While Trans: Profiling of Transgender Women by Law Enforcement, and the Problem of Proof,” William & Mary Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice 24.1. Online: https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmjowl/vol24/iss1/3/
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, 2nd Edition. New York: Routledge.
hooks, bell. 1986. “Sisterhood: Political Solidarity between Women,” Feminist Review 23: 125-138.
Jones, Cara E. 2017. “Transforming Classroom Norms as Social Change: Pairing Embodied Exercises with Collaborative Participation in the WGS Classroom (with Syllabus),” The Radical Teacher 107: 14-24.
McKinley, Jesse and Luis Ferré-Sadurni. 2021. “N.Y. Repeals Law that Critics Say Criminalized ‘Walking While Trans,” New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/nyregion/walking-while-trans-ban.html
Merki, Taryn. 2020. “New York’s Latest Bail Law Changes Explained,” Brennan Center for Justice Analysis https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/new-yorks-latest-bail-law-changes-explained
Mogul, Joey L., Andrea J. Ritchie, and Kay Whitlock. 2012. Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. Boston, MA: Beacon Press.
Pasulka, Nicole. 2012. “The Case of CeCe MacDonald: Murder – or Self Defense Against a Hate Crime?” Mother Jones https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/cece-mcdonald-transgender-hate-crime-murder/
Pemberton, Sarah. 2013. “Enforcing Gender: The Constitution of Sex and Gender in Prison Regimes,” Signs 39.1: 151-175.
Risman, Barbara. 2004. “Gender as a Social Structure: Theory Wrestling with Activism,” Gender and Society 18.4: 429-450.
Spade, Dean. 2014. “Their Laws Will Never Make Us Safer,” Pp. 165-175 in Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion, Ed. Ryan Conrad. Baltimore, MD: AK Press.
Spade, Dean. 2013. “Intersectional Resistance and Law Reform,” Signs 38.4: 1031-1055.
Spade, Dean. 2011. “Some Very Basic Tips for Making Higher Education More Accessible to Trans Students and Rethinking How We Talk about Gendered Bodies,” The Radical Teacher 92: 57-62.