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008			201210s2021 nyu b 001 0ceng
010			_a2020054841
020			_a1324004495 (hardcover)
020			_a9781324004493 (hardcover)
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dGCmBT _dMiTN
050		4	_aTX139 _b.D745 2021
100	1		_aDreilinger, Danielle,
245	1	4	_aThe secret history of home economics : _bhow trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live / _cDanielle Dreilinger.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, N.Y. : _bW.W. Norton & Company, _c[2021]
300			_axv, 348 pages ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 301-329) and index.
505	0		_aThe road to home economics -- The Lake Placid Conference -- Food will win the war -- Perhaps it wasn't really a man's job after all -- It's up to the women -- Clothes moths work for Hitler -- From coveralls to housecoats -- The iron fist in the oven mitt-- Selling Mrs. Housewife -- New directions -- New homemakers build the future -- Beyond stitching and stirring -- Addressing the enemy -- Home economics at risk -- What would Ellen do?.
520			_a"The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term "home economics" may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken cakes. But obscured by common conception is the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople that were otherwise foreclosed. In The Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field's history from small farms to the White House, from Victorian suffragists to Palo Alto techies. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them; Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by Black women who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics' women, as they chose being single, shared lives with women, or tried for egalitarian marriages. This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a maligned subject to its rightful importance"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aHome economics _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aHome economists _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aHousekeepers _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		0	_aWomen scientists _zUnited States _vBiography.
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