Maintaining the hegemonic masculinity through selective attachment, homophobia, and gay-baiting in schools: Challenges to intervention

School Psychology Review

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 221-227

  Tharinger, Deborah J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

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