Education: A site of desire and threat for Australian girls

Education into the 21st Century: Dangerous Terrain for Women?

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 81-94

  Foster, Victoria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203982136-15     Document Type: Chapter

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