Taylor, Vanessa Jane ORCID: 0000-0003-3639-7460 (2020) Gender and agency in the Anthropocene: energy, women, and the home in Twentieth-Century Britain. RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society, 2020/1 (1). pp. 11-15. ISSN 2190-5088 (Print), 2190-8087 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9065)

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Abstract

In this piece, Taylor examines women’s agency during energy transitions, considering their roles as both professionals in the management and advertising of new energy systems and as primary users of energy in the home. Exploring moves to gas, electricity, and even hydro-electricity in Britain in the mid-eighteenth century, the author exposes the conflicts faced by women trying to support and convert households as they took on new technologies and energy sources.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	” In: “Women and Energy,” edited by Abigail Harrison Moore and Ruth Sandwell, RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society 2020, no. 1, 11–15. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9065. Article published following conference. Part of “Women and Energy" RCC Perspectives.
Uncontrolled Keywords:	women; energy; environment; Anthropocene; fossil fuels
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > History Research Group (HRG) Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
Last Modified:	08 Apr 2022 08:25
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/35710

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