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Making the Familiar Strange: An Ethnographic Scholarship of Integration Contextualizing Engineering Educational Culture as Masculine and Competitive

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Pages 196-216 | Received 22 Nov 2017, Accepted 09 Jan 2019, Published online: 16 Sep 2019

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