Missionary girl power: Saving the 'third world' one girl at a time

Gender and Education

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 295-311

  Sensoy, Özlem ^a   Marshall, Elizabeth ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Education; Feminism; Islam; Literature; Middle east; Postcolonial

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951776899     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540250903289451     Document Type: Article

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