Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars - Couverture souple

Wertheim, Margaret

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1857025830 ISBN 13 : 9781857025835

Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

A synthesis of science, religion and gender politics which sets out to demonstrate that, from its inception, physics has been a male-dominated activity. Wertheim suggests that this gender inequity results from the religious origins of the enterprise, historically closed to women.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

A spirited look at the relationship between physics and religion--and the implications for both sexes. 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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Margaret Wertheim is an Australian science writer now living in New York City.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fourth Estate Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1857025830
• ISBN 13: 9781857025835
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
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• Personne responsable: non disponible