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

"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"--Cover

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Vincenti, Virginia Bramble, 1946-, Stage, Sarah
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 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 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 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.