"Permission to talk about It": Narratives of sexual equality in the primary classroom

Qualitative Inquiry

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 876-892

  DePalma, Renée ^a,b   Atkinson, Elizabeth ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUNDERLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heteronormativity; Primary teachers; Surplus visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 65549117378     PISSN: 10778004     EISSN: 15527565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077800409332763     Document Type: Article

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