Pythagoras's Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393317244)

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.

Author: Margaret Wertheim
ISBN-10: 0393317242
ISBN-13: 9780393317244
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1997
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.54w x 0.78d