Pythagoras's Trousers God, Physics, and the Gender War
Pythagoras's Trousers God, Physics, and the Gender War
- ISBN 13:
9780393317244
- ISBN 10:
0393317242
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 09/17/1997
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary
Here is a fresh, astute social and cultural history of physics, from ancient Greece to our own time. From its inception, Margaret Wertheim shows, physics has been an overwhelmingly male-dominated activity; she argues that gender inequity in physics is a result of the religious origins of the enterprise. Pythagoras' Trousers is a highly original history of one of science's most powerful disciplines. It is also a passionate argument for the need to involve both women and men in the process of shaping the technologies from the next generation of physicists.