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This study used narrative inquiry to investigate the construction of self-identity by fifteen incarcerated female adolescents involved in a story-telling program in a Midwestern state juvenile detention facility. A combination of critical theory, feminism, and the Islamic religi…

This study investigated factors that affect parents' decisions to send their girls to school, in contrast to their boys, in a rural area of The Gambia, West Africa. Though arguments for girls' education are compelling, more girls are still out of school in most developing countr…

The present study investigated differences in the impact of attributions of responsibility on young (5 to 10 1/2 years old) sexual abuse victims' adjustment to the abuse within the frameworks of perspective taking and self-concept, because the literature suggested that the relat…

The purpose of this dissertation is to explore the causes of the differential treatment of sick boys and girls in Minia, Egypt. I give attention to the social, economic, and cultural factors that define the position of women in this setting and that explain the distribution of d…