Discourse and “Truth”: The Production of the Relationships between Women, Men and Mathematics
This work presents an analysis essay developed in a research which investigated the gender relations in numeracy practices of male and female students in Youth and Adult Education (EJA). As an attempt to understand how these relations – based on gender differences – are constituted by numeracy pr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Spanish |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2009-01-01
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| Series: | Revista Estudos Feministas |
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| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ref/article/view/12071 |
| Summary: | This work presents an analysis essay developed in a research which investigated the
gender relations in numeracy practices of male and female students in Youth and Adult Education
(EJA). As an attempt to understand how these relations – based on gender differences – are
constituted by numeracy practices and, at the same time, how they constitute such practices, we
adopt the gender concept as an analysis category, passing through Foucaultian theorizations
related to discourse. Taking into consideration the contributions from Ethnomathematics, we point
to the rationality of the Cartesian matrix as the producer of truths about women, men and
mathematics. This article describes the utterance “Man is better in math than woman”, which was
identified as a discourse maker of male superiority in mathematics. |
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| ISSN: | 0104-026X 1806-9584 |