Across the British empire and the world, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of unprecedented social and cultural change. Girls and young women were at the heart of many of these shifts. Out of this milieu, Girl Guiding emerged as a response to modern concerns about gender, race, cl…
By analyzing how the Girl Guide movement sought to maintain social stability in England, Canada, and India during the 1920s and 1930s, this book reveals the ways in which girls and young women understood, reworked, and sometimes challenged the expectations placed on them by the …
"Across the British empire and the world, the 1920s and 1930s were a time of unprecedented social and cultural change. Girls and young women were at the heart of many of these shifts. Out of this milieu, Girl Guiding emerged as a response to modern concerns about gender, race, c…
When Coraline steps through a door in her family's new house, she finds another house strangely similar to her own (only better). At first, things seem marvelous. The food is better than at home, and the toy box is filled with fluttering wind-up angels and dinosaur skulls that c…
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This practical guide follows Alison, a girl with Asperger syndrome, through childhood and womanhood to explain the key issues that females with autism spectrum disorder face and how they can be supported. It offers practical tools and advice that girls, their parents and women o…
This practical guide follows Alison, a girl with Asperger syndrome, through childhood and womanhood to explain the key issues that females with autism spectrum disorder face and how they can be supported. It offers practical tools and advice that girls, their parents and women o…
This practical guide explains the unique issues that affect females with autism and provides tools and strategies that girls, women and their families can use in day-to-day life. Following the story of Alison, a girl diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, through both childhood and a…
This practical guide follows Alison, a girl with Asperger syndrome, through childhood and womanhood to explain the key issues that females with autism spectrum disorder face and how they can be supported. It offers practical tools and advice that girls, their parents and women o…
"Learn about your skills, dreams, desires, and personality with Do You Know Who You Are?, a guided journal for young adults who want to discover more about themselves. Part quiz book, part self-help book, and part activity book, Do You Know Who You Are? is packed with questionna…
"Learn about your skills, dreams, desires, and personality with Do You Know Who You Are?, a guided journal for young adults who want to discover more about themselves. Part quiz book, part self-help book, and part activity book, Do You Know Who You Are? is packed with questionna…
Machismo has been a traditional reality for most Latino communities for much too long and unfortunately, it does not seem to be making an exit any time soon. To serve as a counteract for machismo, this thesis encourages for Universities to add onto training programs for faculty …
U.S. non-profit organizations (NPOs) offering Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programming, particularly those serving minorities and women, are becoming guideposts that assist academic, government and corporate institutions alike to steer their efforts a…
The aim of this study is to indentify the difficulties faced by women administrators in making decisions and in communicating, and to try to find solutions for these difficulties. Women's education in Saudi .Arabia is only 26 years old' and Saudi women administrators are still t…
During the final decades of the nineteenth century girls' culture flourished. As recent scholarship has shown, this culture pivoted on an engagement with fiction and particularly the periodical press. Magazines such as the Girl's Own Paper and the Monthly Packet provided spaces …
Girls' access to education and literacy in developing countries has received international significance in the past decade. This dissertation uses a qualitative approach in understanding girls' literacy in rural Pakistan. It contributes in (1) addressing issues of literacy and s…
This study examined the perceptions of a sample of female Muslim-American students regarding their socio-cultural accommodation in California public high schools. The research provides insight into the daily lives of female Muslim-American high school students to be available to…
