Demons of Domesticity

Contents: List of figures; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; The Victorian kitchen revolutionised; Exhibitions and the spectacle of selling; Lady demons and 'well-dressed men': gender and sales in the Edwardian gas industry; 'Keep the gas fires burning!': war and reconstruction; Marketing modernity: gas versus electricity between the wars; 'A women's industry': demonstrations of difference and equality; Conclusion; Biography; Index.

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• História do século 20: c 1900 a c 2000
• História social e cultural
• História inglesa e irlandesa
• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900
• Estudos de gênero: as mulheres
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