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Gender Policing the Poor: Toward a Conceptual Apparatus
Abstract
The term gender policing is widespread in gender studies. However, far too often, this term is used without reference to the actual institution of the police, who, as armed agents of the state, occupy a particular place in the social, political, and economic enforcement of gender norms. This paper probes the concept of gender policing, especially in relationship to class, race, and sexuality, by interrogating why policing as an institution is often so absent from accounts of gender policing and normativity. It asks whether the term gender policing is really the appropriate frame for interrogations of gender normativity.
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“Gender policing enacts, as Bohrer (2021:87) puts it, 'the deep recesses of social order.'”
From Homophobic Bullying as Gender Policing: Population-Based Evidence (2023) · cites this paper as Bohrer 2021
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“The kind of gender policing that Greenwell describes is central to queer people's experience of violence, generally (Meyer 2015; Bohrer 2021), and bullying, specifically (Pascoe 2007; Payne and Smith 2016; Robinson 2020).”
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- Authors
- Bohrer, A. J.
- Corresponding author
- Bohrer, Ashley J.
- ORCID
- Bohrer, Ashley J.
- Venue
- Feminist Formations
- Publisher
- Project MUSE
- Published
- 2021
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 74-95
- ISSN
- 1040-0656 (ISSN-L)
- 2151-7371
- OpenAlex
- W3167627429
- Cited by
- 4
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2022: 1
- FWCI
- 1.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- NWSA Journal (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender and Feminist Studies
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Policing Practices and Perceptions
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Feminist Theory and Gender Studies
- Keywords
- gender policing, gender normativity, police, gender norms, class, race, sexuality, intersectionality, conceptual apparatus
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