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Introduction: Sexing the School

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Exploring Sexuality in Schools

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This chapter introduces the research and briefly contextualizes it in the following intersecting fields of scholarship: (1) schooling and young people’s sexuality; (2) the intersectional constitution of gendered, sexual, ethnic/raced and classed subjectivities; (3) the reproduction of social inequalities in education. This brief outline of a conceptual framework of the study is followed by a description of the organization of the book, in which the contents of the following chapters are summarized.

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Rédai, D. (2019). Introduction: Sexing the School. In: Exploring Sexuality in Schools. Palgrave Studies in Gender and Education. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20161-6_1

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