Rethinking Home Economics
Subtitle: Women and the History of a Profession
Contributors: Sarah Stage (Editor); Virginia B. Vincenti (Editor)
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780801481758
Subjects: Women's studies; Social conditions; History; Social Science; Women's Studies - General; Sociology; Women; General; 20th century; Home economics; United States
Description: 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 rubic 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.