Domesticating Electricity

Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880-1914
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-8229-6529-9
Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: Science & Culture in the Nineteenth Century

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gooday, Graeme

Über Autor(innen)

Grame Gooday is professor of history of science and technology at the University of Leeds.