Constructions of gender in Parents' choice of a single-sex school for their daughters

Gender in Policy and Practice: Perspectives on Single Sex and Coeducational Schooling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 304-322

  Heather, Barbara ^a  

^a MACEWAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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