The secret history of home economics : how trailblazing women harnessed the power of home and changed the way we live /
"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 scienc...
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New York, NY :
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.,
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