Outside the brackets: Why school administrators fail to see gendered harassment within an antibullying law.
Much of school bullying involves students policing the gender roles and sexuality of other students. The proliferation of antibullying laws presents an opportunity to formally punish and mark gendered harassment as unacceptable. However, when this form of peer policing involves girls, administrators...
| Publicado en: | Law & Society Review Vol. 57; no. 2; pp. 234 - 254 |
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Cambridge University Press
Jun2023
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