The secret history of home economics how trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live
"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 cakes. But obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary scienc...
| Main Author: | Dreilinger, Danielle (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
[2021]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Everything you know about home economics is wrong
- The road to home economics
- The Lake Placid Conference
- Food will win the war
- Perhaps it wasn't really a man's job after all
- It's up to the women
- Clothes moths work for Hitler
- From coveralls to housecoats
- The iron fist in the oven mitt
- Selling Mrs. Housewife
- New directions
- New homemakers build the future
- Beyond stitching and stirring
- Addressing the enemy
- Home economics at risk
- What would Ellen do?
- How to bring back home ec.