Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008
eISBN: 978-0-8229-8170-1 | Paper: 978-0-8229-6529-9 | Cloth: 978-1-85196-975-3
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eISBN: 978-0-8229-8170-1 | Paper: 978-0-8229-6529-9 | Cloth: 978-1-85196-975-3
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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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