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Switching from the Master to the Mistress: A Women’s Guide to Powering Up the Home
The author explores how the first professional women decorators in Britain helped women gain agency in the home.
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Illuminating Women: The Case of Candles in the English Home, 1815–1900
Sayer looks at candles as an example of how less prominant energy sources and uses play key roles in energy transitions.
Perspectives Article
Fear and Anxiety on the Energy Frontier: Understanding Women’s Early Encounters with Fossil Fuels in the Home
Looking to rural Canada, the author shows how women’s concerns for family safety drove energy choices and supplier campaigns.
Perspectives Article
Our Own Memories: Women’s Experiences of Rural Electrification
This edited radio-show transcript provides personal accounts of women’s experiences in rural Ireland during the transition to electricity.
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Women and Energy in the Ruhr Area of West Germany, 1950s–1980s
Dolata brings to light how the conflicts faced by women has shaped their agency in energy transitions.
Perspectives Article
Transitions in the Niger Delta: Oil, Poverty, and Environmental Degradation
Helbert raises the issue of justice in energy transitions by looking at the discrimination faced by women in oil regions of Nigeria.
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Interview with Astrid Eckert, author of West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands
In this episode from the New Books Network podcast, Astrid Eckert is interviewed on her book, West Germany and the Iron Curtain: Environment, Economy, and Culture in the Borderlands.
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Subterranean (In)visibilities: Traces, Underground Water, and Thermal Flows in the El Tatio Geyser Field, Atacama, Chile
Describing geothermal exploration traces and explosions at the “El Tatio” geyser field, this article explores the (in)visible trajectories of underground water.
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Touching Power: White Womanhood, Colonial Spectacle, and the “Forces of Nature” at the Boulder Power Inaugural
Gender colonization, progress, and nature on display as the first electricity from Hoover Dam arrived in Los Angeles in 1936.
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The Day of the Waterfall: Tourism, Identity, and Gender at the Trollhättan Hydropower Plant
A close reading of the tourist spectacle devised to give a hydropower company an environmentally- and socially-friendly image.