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Sexuality, Schooling, and Adolescent Females: The Missing Discourse of Desire

Michelle Fine
Harvard Educational Review April 1988, 58 (1) 29-54; DOI: https://doi.org/10.17763/haer.58.1.u0468k1v2n2n8242
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