Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Introduction 3
5. Changing the Plot: Including Women in Energy History (and Explaining Why They Were Missing) 16
6. Finding Women in the History of Lighting: Candles in the English Home, 1815–1910 46
7. Women, Fear, and Fossil Fuels 67
8. Agency, Ambivalence, and the Women’s Guide to Powering Up the Home in England, 1870–1895 90
9. Women in Energy Engineering: Changing Roles and Gender Contexts in Britain, 1890–1934 114
10. Brown Bread and Washing Machines: Nostalgia and Perspective in Irish Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification 134
11. Complex Agency in the Great Acceleration: Women and Energy in the Ruhr Area after 1945 155
12. Anthropocene Women: Energy, Agency, and the Home in Twentieth-Century Britain 174
13. Bibliography 193
14. Contributors 225
15. Index 229