Dealing with 'fragile identities': Resistance and refiguring in women mathematics students

Gender and Education

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 565-583

  Solomon, Yvette ^a   Lawson, Duncan ^b   Croft, Tony ^c  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Learner identities; Mathematics; Resistance; Self positioning; Undergraduates

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052071457     PISSN: 09540253     EISSN: 13600516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540253.2010.512270     Document Type: Article

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