Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession - Image 1

£86.45

Cornell University Press Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession

Name: Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession
Brand: Cornell University Press
Price: 77.81 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 87 days • 87 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 87 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £86 (50 days, 57.5%)

Price range: £78 - £86

Price levels: 2 different prices over 87 days

Description

Until recently, historians tended to dismiss home economics as little more than a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen. This landmark volume initiates collaboration among home economists, family and consumer science professionals, and women's historians. What knits the essays together is a willingness to revisit the subject of home economics with neither indictment nor apology. The volume includes significant new work that places home economics in the twentieth century within the context of the development of women's professions. 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 rubric 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.

Product Specifications

Brand: Cornell University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0801429714
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 02 July 1997
Listed Since: 15 February 2007

Barcode

No barcode data available

Cornell University Press Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Food Blogs, Postfeminism, and the Communication of Expertise: Digital Domestics (Communicating Gender)

In the Kitchen, 1550-1800: Reading English Cooking at Home and Abroad (Food Culture, Food History before 1900)

Food Pedagogies (Critical Food Studies)

Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria (Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations)

Taste of the Nation: The New Deal Search for America's Food (Studies in Sensory History)

Food Values in Europe

The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Food and Gastronomy

Food in Time and Place: The American Historical Association Companion to Food History

Food, Language, and Society: Communication in Japanese Foodways

The Recipe Reader: Narratives - Contexts - Traditions

Tasting Paradise on Earth: Jiangnan Foodways

Research Methods in Digital Food Studies

Food Security and Social Protection for the Rural Poor in China (China Perspectives)

Religion, Food, and Eating in North America (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

The Internal Structure of U. S. Consumption Expenditures

Blank Recipe Book to Write in Your Own Recipes | Illustrated Recipe Notebook: Notebook Cookbook Journal 7.5 x 9.25" Gifts Ideas for Home Cooks & Food Lovers 200+ Pages

Culinary Nutrition: The Science and Practice of Healthy Cooking

Cuisine and Empire: Cooking in World History (California Studies in Food & Culture) (California Studies in Food and Culture): 43

Global Economics and Management: Transition to Economy 4.0: Prospects of Fundamental Science Development International Conference 2018 (PFSD 2018): ... Proceedings in Business and Economics)

Food Consumption in the City: Practices and patterns in urban Asia and the Pacific (Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment)

Routledge Handbook of the History of Women’s Economic Thought (Routledge International Handbooks)

[ 4 Books in 1 ] - Libro Di Cucina Con Oltre 500 Pagine a Colori Di Ricette Internazionali - Ricettario Scritto in Italiano: A Complete Cookbook With ... Hardback Version - Italian Language Edition

Why Cook : Timeless recipes and life lessons from inspiring women

La Maison Bernard Loiseau: Le goût, le goût, le goût