Talking back to power: Snowballs in hell and the imperative of insisting on structural explanations

Gender and Education

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 225-232

  Francis, Becky ^a   Hey, Valerie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROEHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Achievement; Activism; Aspirations; Feminism; Gender; Social class

Indexed keywords

EID: 66449120572     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540250802680081     Document Type: Review

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