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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: secret history of home economics
    sub title: how trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live
  name:
    name part: Dreilinger, Danielle
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: Biographies.
  genre: History.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 348 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
  abstract: "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"--
  table of contents: Everything you know about home economics is wrong -- The 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? -- How to bring back home ec.
  note: Danielle Dreilinger.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Home economists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Housekeepers
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Women scientists
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Home economics
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: HOUSE & HOME / General
  subject:
    topic: Home economics
  subject:
    topic: Home economists
  subject:
    topic: Housekeepers
  subject:
    topic: Women scientists
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: TX139 .D74 2021
  classification: 640.92
  identifier: 9781324004493
  identifier: 1324004495
  identifier: 9781324004509
  identifier: 2020054841
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201210
    record change date: 20250308175629.5
    record identifier: in00004440613
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng