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Book The Secret History of Home Economics  How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live

Download or read book The Secret History of Home Economics How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live written by Danielle Dreilinger and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today. In the surprising, often fiercely feminist and always fascinating The Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field’s history from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies. These women—and they were mostly women—became chemists and marketers, studied nutrition, health, and exercise, tested parachutes, created astronaut food, and took bold steps in childhood development and education. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by women of color who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics’ women, as they chose to be single, share lives with other women, or try for egalitarian marriages. This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a denigrated subject to its rightful importance, as it reminds us that everyone should learn how to cook a meal, balance their account, and fight for a better world.

Book Areas of Home Economics Research

    Book Details:
  • Author : Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. Division of Home Economics. Committee on Research
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 170 pages

Download or read book Areas of Home Economics Research written by Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. Division of Home Economics. Committee on Research and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Home Economics in Colleges and Universities

Download or read book Home Economics in Colleges and Universities written by American Home Economics Association and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -no. 29. School finance and scnool business management: responsibilities and services of state departments of education [by] Clayton D. Hutchins, Albert R. Munse [and] Edna D. Booher.

Book Remaking Home Economics

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  • Author : Sharon Y. Nickols
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0820348074
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Remaking Home Economics written by Sharon Y. Nickols and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interdisciplinary effort of scholars from history, women's studies, and family and consumer sciences, Remaking Home Economics covers the field's history of opening career opportunities for women and responding to domestic and social issues. Calls to "bring back home economics" miss the point that it never went away, say Sharon Y. Nickols and Gwen Kay--home economics has been remaking itself, in study and practice, for more than a century. These new essays, relevant for a variety of fields--history, women's studies, STEM, and family and consumer sciences itself--take both current and historical perspectives on defining issues including home economics philosophy, social responsibility, and public outreach; food and clothing; gender and race in career settings; and challenges to the field's identity and continuity. Home economics history offers a rich case study for exploring common ground between the broader culture and this highly gendered profession. This volume describes the resourcefulness of past scholars and professionals who negotiated with cultural and institutional constraints to produce their work, as well as the innovations of contemporary practitioners who continue to change the profession, including its name and identity. The widespread urge to reclaim domestic skills, along with a continual need for fresh ways to address obesity, elder abuse, household debt, and other national problems affirms the field's vitality and relevance. This volume will foster dialogue both inside and outside the academy about the changes that have remade (and are remaking) family and consumer sciences.

Book Your Career in Home Economics Research

Download or read book Your Career in Home Economics Research written by American Home Economics Association. Research Department and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rethinking Home Economics

Download or read book Rethinking Home Economics written by Sarah Stage and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 willingness to revisit the subject of home economics with neither indictment nor apology. The volume includes significant new work that places home economics in the twentieth century within the context of the development of women's professions. Rethinking Home Economics documents the evolution of a profession from the home economics movement launched by Ellen Richards in the early twentieth century to the modern field renamed Family and Consumer Sciences in 1994. The essays in this volume show the range of activities pursued under the rubric of home economics, from dietetics and parenting, teaching and cooperative extension work, to test kitchen and product development. Exploration of the ways in which gender, race, and class influenced women's options in colleges and universities, hospitals, business, and industry, as well as government has provided a greater understanding of the obstacles women encountered and the strategies they used to gain legitimacy as the field developed.

Book Creating Home Economics Futures

Download or read book Creating Home Economics Futures written by Donna Pendergast and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the profession commences its second century of influence, this collection from 34 international Congress contributors reflects the global nature of the profession and provides a platform for outlining what the future of Home Economics might look like. D Pendergast, Griffith Uni.

Book Home Economics

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  • Author : Frances J. Parker
  • Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book Home Economics written by Frances J. Parker and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1987 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Home Economics Research  1909 1959

Download or read book Home Economics Research 1909 1959 written by American Home Economics Association. Research Section and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book National Goals and Guidelines for Research in Home Economics

Download or read book National Goals and Guidelines for Research in Home Economics written by Association of Administrators of Home Economics and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Food Literacy

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  • Author : Helen Vidgen
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-14
  • ISBN : 1317483022
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Food Literacy written by Helen Vidgen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, the food system and the relationship of the individual to that system, continues to change and grow in complexity. Eating is an everyday event that is part of everyone’s lives. There are many commentaries on the nature of these changes to what, where and how we eat and their socio-cultural, environmental, educational, economic and health consequences. Among this discussion, the term "food literacy" has emerged to acknowledge the broad role food and eating play in our lives and the empowerment that comes from meeting food needs well. In this book, contributors from Australia, China, United Kingdom and North America provide a review of international research on food literacy and how this can be applied in schools, health care settings and public education and communication at the individual, group and population level. These varying perspectives will give the reader an introduction to this emerging concept. The book gathers current insights and provides a platform for discussion to further understanding and application in this field. It stimulates the reader to conceptualise what food literacy means to their practice and to critically review its potential contribution to a range of outcomes.

Book Research Imperatives and Challenges for Home Economics in Nigeria

Download or read book Research Imperatives and Challenges for Home Economics in Nigeria written by Elizabeth U. Anyakoha and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Home Economics Science and Arts

Download or read book Home Economics Science and Arts written by Rosemarie von Schweitzer and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scientific mission of Home Economics is to make the case for a sustainable, responsible requirement-orientated everyday culture of solidarity of the genders and generations. These innate value concepts for research and teaching serve to define its disciplinary competence and lay the foundation for meaningful inter- and trans-disciplinary research and teaching. The - Personal and Social Systems Theory of Household Activities is conceived as a self-contained scientific theory and methodology for university home economics research and education. As an applied science of great varieties of practice-oriented professions it offers the essential common foundation."

Book Home Economics Research Report

Download or read book Home Economics Research Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Appraisals of Trends in Home Economics Research

Download or read book Appraisals of Trends in Home Economics Research written by American Home Economics Association. Research Section and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Home Economics Research

Download or read book Journal of Home Economics Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: