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The poisoned bowl : sex, repression and the public school system /

The architecture and organization of today's boarding school is to a great extent the product of over one hundred years of homophobia. One might imagine that the post-Tom Brown evolution of the boarding school was conditioned by the gradual ascendancy of liberal reformers over uncompromising tr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hickson, Alisdare (Author)
Other Authors: Melly, George, 1926-2007 (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Constable, 1995.
Subjects:
Teenage boys > Sexual behavior > Great Britain.
Teenage boys > Sexual behavior > Great Britain > Anecdotes.
Endowed public schools (Great Britain) > Social aspects.
Endowed public schools (Great Britain) > Social aspects > Anecdotes.
Boarding schools > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Boarding schools > Social aspects > Great Britain > Anecdotes.
Homosexuality and education > Great Britain.
Homophobia in schools > Great Britain.
Boarding schools.
Homosexuality and education.
Students > Sexual behavior.
Great Britain.
Independent schools > Students > Sexuality
Great Britain
Anecdotes.

Cushing: Women & Gender Studies (Does not check out)

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Call Number: LC212.83.G7 H52 1995
Notes: Donated by Don Kelly. 20150929
 
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