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Gender relations in elite coeducational schools

@inproceedings{Bennett2015GenderRI,
  title={Gender relations in elite coeducational schools},
  author={Susan V. Bennett},
  year={2015}
}
Coeducational schools have long been regarded as ‘risky’ environments for girls. This ethnographic study of three elite coeducational schools in Melbourne, Australia found that while gender relations continued to be complex, girls and boys worked together as colleagues and friends and the traditional gender hierarchies were disrupted at many points. 
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