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.
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Rethinking the Agency of Women in Energy Management: Early British Debates on Electrification
Gooday challenges established assumptions about the inevitability of modern energy decisions and places the agency of women in the foreground of domestic electrification.
Gender and Agency in the Anthropocene: Energy, Women, and the Home in Twentieth-Century Britain
Taylor examines the conflicts faced by women during energy transitions as professionals in energy management and as primary managers of domestic energy use.
Women and Energy
About this issue
This volume of Perspectives offers a collection of largely untold stories that demonstrate women’s agency in energy transitions.
Content
Experimenting with Energyscapes: Growing up with Solar and Wind in Auroville and Beyond
In this article, Sarah Strauss and Carrick Eggleston track the transition to renewable energy in the village of Auroville in South India.
What Consumers in the Past Tell Us about Future Energyscapes
Taylor and Chappells examine changing material cultures of energy in Britain and Canada.
Review of The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenberg
Frank de Vocht reviews The Invisible Rainbow: A History of Electricity and Life by Arthur Firstenberg.
"The Global Energy Challenge — An IEA View"
This joint presentation by Varro Laszlo and Stefan Pfenninger for the ESC Symposium 2017: Global Energy Challenge provides a framework to understand the economics behind energy consumption in the past, present, and future.
“Generating Infrastructural Invisibility: Insulation, Interconnection, and Avian Excrement in the Southern California Power Grid”
Examining a case of electric power transmission in California in the early twentieth century, Etienne Benson reveals how industrial infrastructures are embedded in complex environments animated by unexpected agencies often invisible to their users.
Wilderness and Waterpower: How Banff National Park Became a Hydroelectric Storage Reservoir
This book explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park in Alberta, Canada.