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Gooday, Graeme

 
9781851969753: Domesticating Electricity: Technology, Uncertainty and Gender 1880 - 1914

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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

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