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Separate is Never Equal: The Repackaging of Single-Sex Education

The Separation Solution: Single-Sex Education and the New Politics of Gender Equality. By Juliet A. Williams, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016. 256 pp. $29.95, £24.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9780520288966

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Hoffnung, M. Separate is Never Equal: The Repackaging of Single-Sex Education. Sex Roles 76, 635–636 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-017-0736-0

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