Rethinking Home Economics : : Women and the History of a Profession /

Rethinking Home Economics : : Women and the History of a Profession / / ed. by Virginia B. Vincenti, Sarah J. Stage.

Until recently, historians tended to dismiss home economics as little more than a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen. This landmark volume initiates collaboration among home economists, family and consumer science professionals, and women's historians. What knits the essays together is a w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
MitwirkendeR:
Apple, Rima D.,
Babbitt, Kathleen R.,
Blaszczyk, Regina Lee,
Brumberg, Joan Jacobs,
Goldstein, Carolyn M.,
Grant, Julia,
Harris, Carmen,
Kline, Ronald R.,
Nyhart, Lynn K.,
Robinson, Lisa Mae,
Rossiter, Margaret W.,
Stage, Sarah,
Tomes, Nancy,
Vincenti, Virginia B.,
HerausgeberIn:
Stage, Sarah J.,
Vincenti, Virginia B.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1997
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.) :; 17 halftones, 2 drawings, 11 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction Home Economics, What's in a Name?
  • Section I. More Than Glorified Housekeeping
  • 1. Ellen Richards and the Social Significance of the Home Economics Movement
  • 2. Spreading the Germ Theory: Sanitary Science and Home Economics, 1880-1930
  • 3. Modernizing Mothers: Home Economics and the Parent Education Movement, 1920-1945
  • Section II. Women's Place: Home Economics Education
  • 4. Liberal Arts or Vocational Training? Home Economics Education for Girls
  • 5. The Men Move In: Home Economics, 1950-1970
  • Section III. They Cannot All Be Teachers: Forging Careers in Home Economics
  • 6. Home Economists in the Hospital, 1900-1930
  • 7. Legitimizing Nutrition Education: The Impact of The Great Depression
  • 8. "Where Mrs. Homemaker is Never Forgotten": Lucy Maltby and Home Economics at Corning Glass Works, 1929-1965
  • Section IV. Home Economics, Race, Class, and Ethnicity
  • 9. Defining the Profession and the Good Life: Home Economics on Film
  • 10. Grace under Pressure: The Black Home Extension Service in South Carolina, 1919-1966
  • Section V. Who Speaks for the Consumer? Home Economics and Business
  • 11. Agents of Modernity: Home Economists and Rural Electrification, 1925-1950
  • 12. Safeguarded by Your Refrigerator: Mary Engle Pennington's Struggle with the National Association of Ice Industries
  • 13. Part of the Package: Home Economists in the Consumer Products Industries, 1920-1940
  • 14. Home Economics Moves into the Twenty-First Century
  • Chronology of Events and Movements Which Have Defined and Shaped Home Economics
  • Suggested Reading
  • Contributors
  • Index

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