Pythagoras's Trousers

God, Physics, and the Gender War

By: Margaret Wertheim

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Paperback | 1 September 1997

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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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"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 Instit "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 Se "[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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