The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine.
This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 38; no. 2; pp. 611 - 626 |
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