Sheila Tobias is the author of Succeed with Math , Revitalizing Undergraduate Science, Faces of Feminism and seven other books on math, science, testing, and defense policy . In 1971, she helped to organize the first women s studies program in the country at Cornell University. Tobias has focused her research on the stidy of women s avoidance of mathematics, resulting in the bestseller, Overcoming Math Anxiety . She believes that so long as people label themselves as disabled in mathematics and do not confront the social and pedagogical origins of their disabilities, they will be denied math mental health .
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