Electricity and the changing contours of masculinity in Los Angeles, 1900–1930
L’électrification des foyers à Los Angeles ouvre une fenêtre pour l’étude du changement des contours de la masculinité entre 1900 et 1930.
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Making coal sharp: Gendered consumers and users of mineral fuel in the 19th Century United States
At the same time that urban American hearths and kitchens became dependent upon coal, proscriptive accounts of gendered domesticity grew in popularity. Buying coal was a man’s world, full of sharp dealings, underhanded sellers, and cutthroat competition.
Networks of power? Rethinking class, gender and entrepreneurship in English electrification, 1880-1924
Traditional energy histories have treated electrification as an inevitability: the assumption has been that making cheap energy supply readily available for the masses required the energy efficiency uniquely attainable by large-scale networked electricity grids.