Author: Margaret Wertheim
A spirited look at the relationship between physics and religion―and the implications for both sexes.
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.
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Paperback: 320 pages
Publication Date: September 17, 1997
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Author: Margaret Wertheim
ISBN-13: 978-0393317244
Genres: Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences