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Remaking Home Economics
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Sharon Y. Nickols
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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An interdisciplinary effort of scholars from history, women's studies, and family and consumer sciences, Remaking Home Economics covers the field's history of o
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Language: en
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Authors: Sharon Y. Nickols
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: University of Georgia Press

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These new essays, relevant for a variety of fields--history, women's studies, STEM, and family and consumer sciences itself--take current and historical perspec
Rethinking Home Economics
Language: en
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Authors: Sarah Stage
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-05 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Until recently, historians tended to dismiss home economics as little more than a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen. This landmark volume initiates collab
Stir it Up
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Authors: Megan J. Elias
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

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Stir It Up explores the changing aims of home economics while putting the phenomena of Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray, Ty Pennington, and the "Mommy Wars" into his
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
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The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic me