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Establishing Choice as a Determining Factor in Educational Identities for Women

Gendered Choices: Learning, Work, Identities in Lifelong Learning. Edited by Sue Jackson, Irene Malcolm, and Kate Thomas, New York, Springer, 2011. 259 pp. $139.00 (hardcover) ISBN: 978-94-007-0646-0

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    Brenda Firestone & Perdeta Bush

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Firestone, B., Bush, P. Establishing Choice as a Determining Factor in Educational Identities for Women. Sex Roles 67, 703–705 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-012-0191-x

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