'Dangerous presumptions': How single-sex schooling reifies false notions of sex, gender, and sexuality

Gender and Education

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 227-238

  Jackson, Janna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Heteronormativity; Intersex; Single sex schooling; Title IX

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951076656     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540250903359452     Document Type: Article

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