Domesticating electricity [electronic resource] : technology, uncertainty and gender, 1880-1914 / by Graeme Gooday.

Domesticating electricity [electronic resource] : technology, uncertainty and gender, 1880-1914 / by Graeme Gooday.

9781851965809 electronic bk
1851969756
9781851969753

London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2008.

English

1 online resource (viii, 292 pages) : illustrations.

HD9685.A2 G66 2008eb

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Science and culture in the nineteenth century ; no. 7.

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