Physics Education and Gender: Identity as an Analytic Lens for Research (Cultural Studies of Science Education, 19) 1st ed. 2020 Edition

Presents a broad picture of the complexity inherent in doing physics and doing gender

Offers a different perspective to research, relying on binary (and deficit) notions of gender

Seduces readers with an interest in qualitative approaches to physics education research

Allison J. Gonsalves is an Assistant Professor of Science Education at McGill University, Canada. She holds a PhD in curriculum studies from McGill University, and completed a post-doctoral fellowship in informal education at the Université de Montréal, Canada. Her research interests are in the area of science identities, with a focus on gender and equity in higher education and out of school science learning contexts.