Masculinities in Mathematics 1st Edition by Heather Mendick 033521827X 9780335218271

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ISBN 10: 033521827X

ISBN 13: 9780335218271

Author: Heather Mendick

‘Masculinities in Mathematics’ addresses the important question of why more boys than girls choose to study maths. The author combines research with a theoretical approach, to argue that doing maths is doing masculinity. She discusses the ways in which the alignment of maths with masculinity creates tensions for girls doing the subject.

Masculinities in Mathematics 1st Table of contents:

Part 1 Scene setting

1 Engendering mathematics

2 Introducing the study

Part 2 Sex by Numbers

3 Being/doing ‘good at maths’

4 Proving something to others

5 Proving something to themselves

6 Changing directions

Part 3 Queering gender and maths

7 Making choices social: refusing essences in the classroom

8 Supporting gender transgression: being and acting different in maths

9 Opening up mathematics: living with uncertainty

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