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‘I sat back on my computer … with a bottle of whisky next to me’: constructing ‘cool’ masculinity through ‘effortless’ achievement in secondary and higher education

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Pages 341-356 | Received 19 Dec 2008, Accepted 23 Jul 2009, Published online: 14 Dec 2009

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