Domesticating electricity : technology, uncertainty and gender, 1880-1914 /
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.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Brookfield, Vt. :
Pickering & Chatto,
2008.
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| Series: | Science and culture in the nineteenth century ;
no. 7. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures and tables
- Introduction
- 1. Understanding the domestication of electricity
- 2. The uncertain identity of electricity
- 3. Electricity as danger
- 4. Electricity as safety
- 5. Electricity as the future
- 6. Aestheticizing electricity
- 7. Personifying electricity
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Works cited
- Index.
