University faculty and a local community group collaborated on an event that involved raising funds for a scholarship while bringing awareness to the university's historic costume collection. As part of this program, students created an original design inspired by one of the collection's garments that was featured in a fashion show. Feedback about…

This study aimed to explore the magazines and topics that female college students like to read, and the topics that senior and junior high school reading textbooks contain. Findings of questionnaire-surveys with female college students at King Saud University revealed that 77% of the students read women's magazines; 77% like to read about fashion…

This dissertation examines how women in the Muslim Student Association (MSA) at the University of Colorado at Boulder respond to the negative stereotypes of Islam and Muslims that have proliferated since 9/11. The media's positioning of Muslim women as "backwards" and "un-American" compels MSA women to construct an extensive…