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

by Graeme Gooday

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965291
• ISBN13: 9780822965299
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"