Revisiting feminism and Australian education:Who speaks? What questions? What contexts? What impact?

Discourse

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 471-481

  Yates, Lyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Curriculum; Feminism; Policy; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 56749104417     PISSN: 01596306     EISSN: 14693739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01596300802410193     Document Type: Conference Paper

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