Preference as Performance: Doing Social Class and Gender in Three School Libraries

Journal of Literacy Research

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 319-361

  Dressman, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

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EID: 84990381078     PISSN: 1086296X     EISSN: 15548430     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10862969709547964     Document Type: Article

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