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		WESTERN POLITICAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATION
		Political Research Online

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NARRATIVE OF DIFFERENCE IN THE SINGLE-SEX PUBLIC EDUCATION DEBATES: AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS Juliet A. Williams Associate Professor UCLA Department of Women’s Studies Los Angeles CA 90095-1504 Tel: 310.794.7954 Email: jawilliams@ucla.edu This draft was prepared for the Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting to be held March 20-23 2008 in San Diego. Please do not cite or circulate without the author’s permission. My interest in the topic of single-sex education goes back to 1983 when as a fifteen-year-old high school
policy proclaims “cultural-sensitivity” and “gender-responsiveness” to be guiding ideals for reforms in areas ranging from public health and welfare to prisons. In this environment intersectionality as a critical perspective faces the risk of cooptation whereby the acknowledgement of group differences becomes an occasion for reinscribing stereotypes. In the above discussion of single-sex public education initiatives I underscore the need to move beyond an emphasis on identity to an analysis of power—nothing short of this will do in the struggle