In a new light : histories of women and energy / edited by Abigail Harrison Moore and R.W. Sandwell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sandwell, R. W. (Ruth Wells), 1955- editor.

Harrison-Moore, Abigail, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Energy consumption--Social aspects.

Energy consumption.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2021]

Summary:

In a New Light explores the vital place of women in the shift to fossil fuels that spurred the Industrial Revolution, illuminating the variety of ways in which gender and energy intersected in women's lives in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and North America. Together these essays deepen our understanding of the significance of gender in the history of energy, and of energy transitions in the history of women and gender.

Contents:

Cover

IN A NEW LIGHT

Title

Copyright

Contents

Figures

Introduction

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

Bibliography

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780228007579

0228007577

9780228007562

0228007569

OCLC:

1237768258