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Smith, Jeffrey – Gender and Education, 2007
The ongoing moral panic surrounding adolescent boys continues to cause concern, proving pivotal in popular discourses centring on the "problem of youth". Drawing on ethnographic data from a large co-educational secondary school, this paper illustrates how school outcomes are adversely affected by working class boys' investments in peer…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Coeducation, Outcomes of Education
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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