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

Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
Volume: 19
Pages: 33-51
Publication date: 2013
Language: English

URI: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23788119

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Leisure and leisure industry Cross-national comparison Amateurs Science and gender 20th century 21st century United States Great Britain

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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