Article ID: CBB704933445

'Stings and Bangs': Amateur Science and Gender in Twentieth-Century Living Spaces (2013)

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Hobbies in the United States and Britain co-evolved with twentieth-century living spaces, especially single-family residences. Scientific hobbies associated primarily with men and boys, such as photography, amateur chemistry, junior rocketry, model railroading, automobile mechanics and carpentry tended to create domestic disamenities in the form of loud noises, penetrating and sometimes poisonous stenches, fire hazards and ever-expanding clutters of tools, materials and projects finished and unfinished. In cities, basements and attics were pressed into service as retreats for amateur scientists; in suburbs and rural areas male hobbyists insulated family members from their 'stinks and bangs' by colonising garages, sheds, barns, and even former chicken coops as recreational work spaces. Gendering of leisure activities and work spaces has persisted into the twenty-first century.

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Authors & Contributors
Alan Meades
Sonia Hirt
Kane, Josephine
Henning, Lori A.
Munger, Michael Sean
Waring, Sophie
Concepts
Cross-national comparison
Science and gender
Leisure and leisure industry
Women in science
Amateurs
Professions and professionalization
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
Great Britain
United States
Germany
Europe
France
South America
Institutions
Great Britain. Army
United States. Army
Women's Engineering Society
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