FEMINIST CLASSROOM PRACTICE AND CULTURAL POLITICS: Some Further Thoughts about ‘Girl Number Twenty’ and IdeologyFootnote∗

∗ An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Annual Conference of the Australian Sociological Association in December 1989 at Latrobe University.

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