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Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880-1914

Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880-1914

Gooday, Graeme

Paperback

Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century, Book 87

Sports GeneralGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0822965291
ISBN13: 9780822965299
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Feb 5 2018
Pages: 302
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain. The rapid take-up of electrical light and domestic appliances on both sides of the Atlantic had a wide-ranging effect on consumer habits and the division of labour within the home. Electricity was viewed by non-experts as potential threat to domestic order and welfare. This broadly interdisciplinary study relates to a website developed by the author on the history of electricity.

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