In "The Kitchen Electric: Selling Power to Rural America", producer Katie Jane Fernelius looks at the role of women in campaigns for electricity and electrical appliances. Altogether, she learns that industrialization and electrification may have been more transformative in women's lives than any others - for better and worse.

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