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Gender/ed discourses and emotional sub-texts: theorising emotion in UK higher education

Carole Leathwood Institute for Policy Studies in Education, London Metropolitan University, 166–220 Holloway Road, London, N7 8DB, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Valerie Hey Centre for Higher Education and Access Research (CHEER), Sussex School of Education, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, BN1 9QQ, UK
Pages 429-440 | Published online: 10 Jul 2009

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