The Academic Kitchen: A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley

by Nerad, Maresi

• ISBN13: 9780791439692
• ISBN10: 0791439690
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Author Biography

Maresi Nerad is Director of Graduate Research at the University of California, Berkeley

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix	(2)
List of Tables	xi	(2)
Acknowledgments	xiii
Introduction	1	(16)
From Social Reform Movement to Academic Study: Home Economics	4	(7)
The Berkeley Saga	11	(6)
Chapter 1. Creating a Department of Home Economics at the University of California	17	(34)
The Invisible Berkeley Women Students	18	(3)
Benjamin Ide Wheeler of Berkeley: "A Womanly Education to Be More Serviceable Wives and Mothers"	21	(12)
"All We Ask Is a Chance": The Second-Class Status of Women Students and the Establishment of Home Economics at Berkeley	33	(3)
Jessica Peixotto, Lucy Sprague, Lucy Ward Stebbins: Living Down "Prejudices"	36	(10)
A "Women's Department": A Form of Segregation?	46	(5)
Chapter 2. University Schooling for "the Housekeeper, Homemaker, and Mother"	51	(22)
The Frustrating Struggle for Faculty and Status as a School	53	(8)
Developing an Organizational Structure	61	(2)
"Women Cannot Take Responsibility as Well as Men..."	63	(4)
A Department after All, but Power Rests with the President	67	(6)
Chapter 3. Institution Builder: Agnes Fay Morgan	73	(16)
Keeping a "Deep" Secret	76	(6)
Household "Science" or Household "Art"?	82	(2)
Gender Inequality Enhanced by the War	84	(3)
Building an Institution: A Genius for Essentials	87	(2)
Chapter 4. In Search of Status	89	(38)
Concentrating on What Affects Status: Quality of Faculty, Curriculum, Research, Outside Funding, Graduates' Careers, Committee Service, and Facilities	90	(16)
Securing Outside Research Funding	106	(1)
The Career Choices and Employment of the Department's Students and the Graduate Group in Nutrition	107	(13)
A Name Change and a Fight: What's in a Name? Power	120	(7)
Chapter 5. From "The Peak of Eminence" to the End of a Separate Sphere: Berkeley Finds Home Economics an Embarrassment	127	(12)
Conclusion Lessons	139	(4)
Appendix A Chronological History of Home Economics at the University of California, Berkeley	143	(8)
Notes	151	(22)
Bibliographic Essay	173	(6)
Selected Bibliography	179	(8)
Index	187