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The Qualitative Approach to Socially Constructed Identities

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Gender and Sexual Identity

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As discussed in the previous chapter, quantitative research offers many advantages for addressing questions of interest to feminist scholars, including the promise of deriving free-standing, objective, and widely generalizable knowledge which identifies causal mechanisms that can be targeted for socially beneficial interventions.

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Nagoshi, J.L., Nagoshi, C.T., Brzuzy, S. (2014). The Qualitative Approach to Socially Constructed Identities. In: Gender and Sexual Identity. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8966-5_4

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