Domesticating physics: introductory physics textbooks for women in home economics in the United States, 1914–1955
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DOI: 10.1080/0046760x.2016.1273404
Abstract: Abstract Technologies such as electrical appliances entered American households on a large scale only after many decades of promotion to the public. The genre of ‘household physics’ textbooks was one such form of promotion that… read more here.
Keywords: home economics; physics; physics textbooks; united states ... See more keywords