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Conflicting Gender Role Prescriptions and Disordered Eating in Single-Sex and Coeducational School Environments.

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Mensinger, Janell – Gender and Education, 2001

Examined the hypothesis that adolescent girls attending single-sex schools would exhibit greater body dissatisfaction and disordered eating than their coeducational counterparts, reanalyzing data from relevant subscales of an eating disorder inventory (drive for thinness, bulimia, and body dissatisfaction) and a figure rating scale from an earlier…

Descriptors: Adolescents, Body Image, Coeducation, Eating Disorders

No Matter of Principle--The Unproblematic Character of Coeducation in Girls' Secondary Schooling in the Netherlands, ca. 1870-1930.

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Bakker, Nelleke; van Essen, Mineke – History of Education Quarterly, 1999

Explores the predominance of coeducation of secondary schools in The Netherlands, focusing on the years between 1871, when the first girl was admitted to a boys' school, and 1929. Considers topics such as the conditions of entry of the first generation of girls and the results of inquiries into school practices. (CMK)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Coeducation, Educational History, Educational Improvement