In a new light : histories of women and energy /

"In the early 1970s, a German study estimated that women expended as many calories cleaning their coal-mining husbands' work clothes as their husbands did working below ground, arguably making the home as much a site of industrialized work as factories and mines. But while energy studies a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harrison-Moore, Abigail (Editor ), Sandwell, R. W. (Ruth Wells), 1955- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2021.
Temas:
1800-1999
Households > Energy consumption > History > 19th century.
Households > Energy consumption > History > 20th century.
Energy consumption > Social aspects > 19th century.
Energy consumption > Social aspects > 20th century.
Energy consumption > History > 19th century.
Energy consumption > History > 20th century.
Women > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women > Social conditions > 20th century.
Home economics > History > 19th century.
Home economics > History > 20th century.
Ménages (Statistique) > Consommation d'énergie > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Ménages (Statistique) > Consommation d'énergie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Femmes > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Économie domestique > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Économie domestique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Énergie > Consommation > Aspect social > 19e siècle.
Énergie > Consommation > Aspect social > 20e siècle.
Énergie > Consommation > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Énergie > Consommation > Histoire > 20e siècle.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History
Energy consumption
Energy consumption > Social aspects
Home economics
Households > Energy consumption
Women > Social conditions
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 Changing the Plot: Including Women in Energy History (and Explaining Why They Were Missing)
  • 2 Finding Women in the History of Lighting: Candles in the English Home, 1815-1910
  • 3 Women, Fear, and Fossil Fuels
  • 4 Agency, Ambivalence, and the Women's Guide to Powering Up the Home in England, 1870-1895
  • 5 Women in Energy Engineering: Changing Roles and Gender Contexts in Britain, 1890-1934
  • 6 Brown Bread and Washing Machines: Nostalgia and Perspective in Irish Women's Experiences of Rural Electrification
  • 7 Complex Agency in the Great Acceleration: Women and Energy in the Ruhr Area after 1945
  • 8 Anthropocene Women: Energy, Agency, and the Home in Twentieth-Century Britain

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