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Title: DOMESTICATING ELECTRICITY
TECHNOLOGY, UNCERTAINTY AND GENDER, 1880-1914
By: Graeme Gooday
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0822944820
ISBN 13: 9780822944829
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS
Pub. date: 1 July, 2008
Series: Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Pages: 256
Description: Offers 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. This broadly interdisciplinary study relates to a website developed by the author on the history of electricity.
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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