Pythagoras' Trousers God, Physics, and the Gender Wars
- List Price: $23.95
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
- Publish date: 09/01/1997
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.
"Fascinating.... A delight to read, and highly informative". -- Keith Devlin, Nature
"Smart, bold, and provocative.... Sure to evoke even more interest than it does controversy". -- Evelyn Fox Keller, professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of Reflections on Gender and Science
"Remarkable.... A fascinating journey through the intellectual history that has shaped our current post-modern, scientific, and religious culture". -- J. Wentzel van Huyssteen, Princeton Theological Seminary
"(An) immensely accessible tour.... How the physics lab became another Vatican with a no-girls-allowed sign on its door". -- Susan Faludi, author of Backlash
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