Description
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
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/17/1997
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.54w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9780393317244
ISBN10: 0393317242
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Reference
- Science | Physics | General
- Social Science | Popular Culture
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
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/17/1997
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.53h x 5.54w x 0.78d
ISBN13: 9780393317244
ISBN10: 0393317242
BISAC Categories:
- Science | Reference
- Science | Physics | General
- Social Science | Popular Culture