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‘He was a bit of a delicate thing’: white middle‐class boys, gender, school choice and parental anxiety

Katya Williams Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Fiona Jamieson School of Education and Lifelong Learning, University of Sunderland, UK
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Sumi Hollingworth Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University, UK
Pages 399-408 | Published online: 15 Jul 2008

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