Challenging the inevitability of difference: Young women and discourses about gender equity in the classroom

Curriculum Inquiry

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 401-425

  Abu El Haj, Thea Renda ^a  

^a SWARTHMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 33845223666     PISSN: 03626784     EISSN: 1467873X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1467-873X.2003.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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