'Nuts and bolts and people': Gender-troubled engineering identities

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 331-356

  Faulkner, Wendy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Engineer identities; Gender; Heterogeneity; Technical social dualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249052200     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312706072175     Document Type: Article

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