Exploring how REA administrators in the US imagined women would participate in its cooperative-led electrification efforts in the 1930s and 30s. Looking into women's engagement with and resistance to the REA's programming and how technology adoption was ultimately mediated through women's priorities.
Learning from the Electric Circus. Check out the accompanying piece in the Washington Post’s Made by History Blog. Takeaway? This New Deal era program reminds us that the people who enact policies also shape them.
Better Sight, Better Light! Family health has long been marketed as the responsibility of mothers. See my latest in Nursing Clio on the gendering of rural electricity campaigns in 1930s and 40s America.
Working Paper. No journal access? Check out our working paper on the same topic.
Louisan Mamer: Student summer project on the work of home economist Lousian Mamer and the REA. Supported by the Duke University Story+ and Data+ programs.
