Pythagoras's Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender War - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9780393317244

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by Margaret Wertheim (Author)

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.

Number of Pages: 320

Dimensions: 0.78 x 8.53 x 5.54 IN

Publication Date: June 17, 2009

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