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Schooling, Normalisation, and Gendered Bodies: Adolescent Boys’ and Girls’ Experiences of Gender and Schooling

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  1. University of Toronto, ON, Canada

    Dennis Thiessen

  2. Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, USA

    Alison Cook-Sather

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Martino, W., Pallotta-Chiarolli, M. (2007). Schooling, Normalisation, and Gendered Bodies: Adolescent Boys’ and Girls’ Experiences of Gender and Schooling. In: Thiessen, D., Cook-Sather, A. (eds) International Handbook of Student Experience in Elementary and Secondary School. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3367-2_14

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