"Physics and the girly girl-there is a contradiction somewhere": Doctoral students' positioning around discourses of gender and competence in physics

Cultural Studies of Science Education

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 503-521

  Gonsalves, Allison J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Competence; Discourses; Gender; Physics education; Positioning; Recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902799533     PISSN: 18711502     EISSN: 18711510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11422-012-9447-6     Document Type: Article

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