Graeme Gooday: 2 books
Domesticating Electricity
Technology, Uncertainty and Gender, 1880–1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pre-World War I Britain. The rapid take-up of electrical light and domestic appliances on both sides of...
by Graeme Gooday, Karen Sayer
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2015
This book looks at how hearing loss among adults was experienced, viewed and treated in Britain before the National Health Service. We explore the changing status of ‘hard of hearing’ people during the nineteenth century as categorized among diverse and changing categories of ‘deafness’....