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Exploring Gender Through Ash in the Secondary English Classroom

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Greathouse offers secondary English teachers a thematic unit that employs literature as a pedagogical tool for teaching and discussing gender and identity in a 10th grade high school classroom. Focusing on the tale of Cinderella across time periods and cultures, the chapter draws on texts as both revision and evolution by exploring and dialoging with youth about trans* and gender creative identities and gender expressions. Through the exploration of beliefs and values about gender expectations, gender norms, and those that express gender outside the cisnormative, Greathouse shows how students can gain insight into their own and others’ beings.

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  1. Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville, USA

    Paula Greathouse

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Greathouse, P. (2016). Exploring Gender Through Ash in the Secondary English Classroom. In: Miller, s. (eds) Teaching, Affirming, and Recognizing Trans and Gender Creative Youth. Queer Studies and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56766-6_10

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