Counting Girls Out

by Walkerdine,Valerie

• ISBN13: 9780750708159
• ISBN10: 0750708158
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1998-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The question of girls' attainment in mathematics is met with every kind of myth, false 'evidence', and theorizing about the gendered body and the gendered mind. The Girls and Mathematics Unit led by Valeria Walkerdine, over a period of ten years, carried out a detailed theoretical and empirical investigation in this area. The book tackles issues and prejudice and examines and puts into perspective many claims that have been made about women's minds. It also probes the relationship between evidence and explanation: why are girls still taken to be lacking when they perform well, but boys are credited even when they do not?

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vi
Series Editor's Preface	vii
Introduction Changing Views of `The Gender Problem' in Mathematics	1	(14)
Paul Ernest
Subtracting the Feminine	15	(4)
The Truth about Girls	19	(10)
Science, Reason and the Female Mind	29	(13)
Mothers and Daughters at Four	42	(17)
Power and Gender in Nursery School	59	(8)
Entering Infant School	67	(15)
10-Year-Olds	82	(17)
Junior-Secondary Transition	99	(14)
Entering Secondary School	113	(22)
The Fourth Year	135	(16)
Examining Mathematics Texts	151	(8)
No Charge: Political Arithmetic for Women	159	(9)
Afterword Valerie Walkerdine	168	(4)
Bibliography	172	(6)
Index	178