| Description |
xii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-334) and index. |
| Contents |
Home economics, what's in a name? / Sarah Stage -- Ellen Richards and the social significance of the home economics movement / Sarah Stage -- Spreading the germ theory: sanitary science and home economics, 1880-1930 / Nancy Tomes -- Modernizing mothers: home economics and the parent education movement, 1920-1945 / Julia Grant -- Liberal arts or vocational training? Home economics education for girls / Rima D. Apple -- The men move in: home economics in higher |
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education, 1950-1970 / Margaret W. Rossiter -- Reminiscences / Marjorie East -- Home economists in the hospital, 1900-1930 / Lynn K. Nyhart -- Legitimizing nutrition education: the impact of the great depression / Kathleen R. Babbitt -- "Where Mrs. Homemaker is never forgotten": Lucy Maltby and home economics at Corning Glass Works, 1929-1965 / Regina Lee Blaszczyk -- Reminiscences / Hazel Reed -- Defining the profession and the good life: home economics on |
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film / Joan Jacobs Brumberg -- Grace under pressure: the black home extension service in South Carolina, 1919-1966 / Carmen Harris -- Reminiscences / Genevieve J. Wheeler Thomas -- Agents of modernity: home economists and rural electrification, 1925-1950 / Ronald R. Kline -- Safeguarded by your refrigerator: Mary Eagle Pennington's struggle with the National Association of Ice Industries / Lisa Mae Robinson -- Part of the package: home economists in the |
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consumer product industries, 1920-1940 / Carolyn M. Goldstein -- Reminiscences / Satenig St. Marie -- Home economics moves into the Twenty-First Century / Virginia B. Vincenti -- Chronology of events and movements which have defined and shaped home economics / Virginia B. Vincenti. |
| Subject |
Home economics -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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| Added Author |
Stage, Sarah.
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Vincenti, Virginia Bramble, 1946-
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| ISBN |
0801429714 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
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0801481759 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
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