In a New Light: Histories of Women and Energy

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In a New Light

Histories of Women and Energy

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Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 2021

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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 are beginning to acknowledge the importance of social and historical contexts and to produce more inclusive histories of the unprecedented energy transitions that powered industrialization, women have remained notably absent from these accounts.

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. From their labour in the home, where they managed the adoption of new energy sources, to their work as educators in electrical housecraft and their protests against the effects of industrialization, women took on active roles to influence energy decisions.

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. By foregrounding women's energetic labours and concerns, the authors shed new light on energy use in the past and provide important insights as societies move towards a carbon-neutral future.

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Contributor: Abigail Harrison Moore Abigail Harrison Moore is professor of art history and museum studies in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. --- Contributor: R.W. Sandwell R.W. Sandwell is professor of history at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education and in the Department of History at the University of Toronto.

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“In a New Light’s case studies successfully demonstrate women’s adaptability to the developing realm of industrialized and interconnected energy systems. The book also emphasizes the importance of memory and oral history in understanding events from the recent past. The authors raise questions about the future of energy, accentuating the anxiety and uncertainty that people feel when faced with the necessity to change their behaviors and societal habits to adopt new energy technology, which sheds light on the current concerns related to the shift toward green energy.” Technology and Culture --- "There are very few works available that combine energy history and women's history. There is no book on the specific role of women in the process of energy system transformation. In a New Light is innovative in its approach and is a great and long-overdue enrichment of the research landscape." Melanie Arndt, University of Freiburg --- "In a New Light really is a novelty in energy history: it helps push energy concerns into established social and gender history, and it's a book that we really need to have." Paul Warde, University of Cambridge and author of The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c. 1500–1870

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Contents
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Figures
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Introduction
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Abigail Harrison Moore und R.W. Sandwell

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Changing the Plot: Including Women in Energy History (and Explaining Why They Were Missing)
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R.W. Sandwell

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Finding Women in the History of Lighting: Candles in the English Home, 1815–1910
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Karen Sayer

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Women, Fear, and Fossil Fuels
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R.W. Sandwell

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Agency, Ambivalence, and the Women’s Guide to Powering Up the Home in England, 1870–1895
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Abigail Harrison Moore

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Women in Energy Engineering: Changing Roles and Gender Contexts in Britain, 1890–1934
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Graeme Gooday

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Brown Bread and Washing Machines: Nostalgia and Perspective in Irish Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification
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Sorcha O’Brien

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Complex Agency in the Great Acceleration: Women and Energy in the Ruhr Area after 1945
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Petra Dolata

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Anthropocene Women: Energy, Agency, and the Home in Twentieth-Century Britain
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Vanessa Taylor

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Bibliography
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Contributors
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eBook veröffentlicht am:

17. Mai 2023

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9780228007562

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780228007562

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Schlagwörter für dieses Buch

energy; social history; womens history; light; heat; electricity; gas; oil; domestic energy; history home; engineers; Canadian; British; Irish; demonstrators; suffrage; candles; fear; future energy choices

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In a New Light

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Über dieses Buch

Information zu Autoren / Herausgebern

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Fachgebiete

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Front Matter

Contents

Figures

Introduction

Changing the Plot: Including Women in Energy History (and Explaining Why They Were Missing)

Finding Women in the History of Lighting: Candles in the English Home, 1815–1910

Women, Fear, and Fossil Fuels

Agency, Ambivalence, and the Women’s Guide to Powering Up the Home in England, 1870–1895

Women in Energy Engineering: Changing Roles and Gender Contexts in Britain, 1890–1934

Brown Bread and Washing Machines: Nostalgia and Perspective in Irish Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification

Complex Agency in the Great Acceleration: Women and Energy in the Ruhr Area after 1945

Anthropocene Women: Energy, Agency, and the Home in Twentieth-Century Britain

Bibliography

Contributors

Index

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