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    Finding a voice? Narrating the female self in mathematics

    Solomon, Y ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2731-8380 (2012) Finding a voice? Narrating the female self in mathematics. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 80 (1-2). pp. 171-183. ISSN 0013-1954

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    Abstract

    If mathematics is a male domain, where does this leave women who do mathematics? In a world where there is little or no discursive space in which to be female, women who enter in must do identity work in order to achieve what is often an uneasy presence. This paper builds on recent research which suggests that some undergraduate women are however finding new spaces for belonging in the world of mathematics through critical reflection and collective challenge to dominant discourses. Focussing on an analysis of two women's narratives of their success in mathematics, it explores their multi-voiced accounts of self through the lens of Bakhtin's dialogism. It discusses the scope of reflexivity in creating new identity spaces in refigured worlds. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

    Item Type: Article
    Peer-reviewed: Yes
    Date Deposited: 07 May 2013 13:41
    Publisher: Springer (part of Springer Nature)
    Additional Information: This article was originally published following peer-review in Educational studies in mathematics, published by and copyright Springer Netherlands.
    Divisions: Faculties > Health and Education
    Subject terms: Social Sciences, Education & Educational Research, Women, University mathematics, Identities, Refiguring, Heteroglossia, UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS, STUDENTS, EXPERIENCES, Women, University mathematics, Identities, Refiguring, Heteroglossia, 0199 Other Mathematical Sciences, 1302 Curriculum and Pedagogy, Education
    URI: https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/288598
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-012-9384-z
    ISSN 0013-1954
    e-ISSN 1573-0816

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