“What a girl wants, what a girl needs”: Responding to sex, gender, and sexuality in the early childhood classroom

Journal of Research in Childhood Education

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 450-460

  Blaise, Mindy ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 68649099745     PISSN: 02568543     EISSN: 21502641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02568540909594673     Document Type: Article

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