Pythagoras's Trousers - by Margaret Wertheim (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>An "immensely accessible tour (which tells) how the physics lab became another Vatican with a no-girls-allowed sign on its door" (Susan Faludi) this spirited look at the relationship between physics and religion argues that gender inequity in physics is a result of the religious origins of the enterprise.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>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.<br /><br /><em>Pythagoras' Trousers</em> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Fascinating. . . . A delight to read, and highly informative.--Keith Devlin "Nature"<br><br>[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<br><br>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<br><br>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<br>
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