‘Are you a girl or are you a teacher?’ The ‘Least Adult’ Role in Research about Gender and Sexuality in a Primary School

Doing Research about Education

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 27-41

  Epstein, Debbie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203209356-6     Document Type: Chapter

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