Numbers and Narratives - A Feminist Genealogy of Automathographies

Why have there been so few women mathematicians? This book does not seek an answer in absence but in the forces, ruptures, and intensities that shape the becoming of a femme philosophe-a mathematician, scientist, and philosopher-within the shifting assemblages of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe.

List of contents

Introduction: Becoming a mathematician, philosopher and scientist 1. Memory Machines and Archival Traces 2. Epistolary Entanglements: Between the Personal and the Scientific 3. The Dynamics and Politics of Translation 4. Exceptional women? The Agonistics of Knowledge 5. Love and Mathematics: Existential Choices and Intellectual Freedom 6. Philosophical Ruminations and Process Epistemologies 7. Narrative Rhythmanalysis: Listening to the Echo of the Subject Conclusion: Future Pasts: Charting Assemblages

About the author

Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2022-5). She has held academic positions in a number of international institutions, including the 'Hannah Arendt' Centre for Political Studies at the University of Verona, Italy. Her research activity develops in the areas of philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences, feminist theories, narrative analytics, and archival research. She has published in English, Greek, and French, and her work has been translated in Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Welsh, and Greek. She is the author of nine monographs, two co-authored books, and four edited volumes on research methods, including her latest monograph, Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics in 2023. Writing histories of the present is the central focus of her work, currently configured as an assemblage of feminist genealogies.

Product details

• Authors: Maria (University of East London Tamboukou, Tamboukou Maria
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032743257
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3274325-7
• No. of pages: 330
• Series: Literary Methods in the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, MATHEMATICS / General, MATHEMATICS / History & Philosophy, MATHEMATICS / Study & Teaching, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Methodology, Historiography, Feminism & feminist theory, Regional Studies, Philosophy of Mathematics, Regional / International studies, Gender studies: women, Moral and social purpose of education, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies: women and girls, Moral & social purpose of education, Research methods: general