The academic kitchen
Subtitle: a social history of gender stratification at the University of California, Berkeley
By: Maresi Nerad.
Series: SUNY series, frontiers in education
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Home Economics -- History.; Home economics -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- California -- History.; Women college teachers -- California -- History.; Women -- Education (Higher) -- California -- History.; Feminism and higher education -- California -- History.
Description: The Academic Kitchen tells the story of the evolution of an all-women's department, the Department of Home Economics, at the University of California, Berkeley from 1905 to 1954. The book's unique focus on the connection between gender and departmental status challenges organizational theorists and higher education specialists to reconsider their traditional analysis of academic departments.

By incorporating gender in the analysis, Nerad reveals the process by which departments traditionally dominated by women, including education, library science, nursing, social welfare, and home economics, begin as separate (and unequal) programs and are subsequently eliminated (or sustained without economic rewards, prestige, and power) when administrators no longer regard them as useful.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and index.