'Girls hit!' Constructing and negotiating violent African femininities in a working-class primary school

Discourse

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 401-415

  Bhana, Deevia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Agency; Girls; Primary schooling; South Africa; Violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549109598     PISSN: 01596306     EISSN: 14693739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01596300802259160     Document Type: Article

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