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9780791439708

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

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    9780791439708

  • ISBN10:

    0791439704

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-12-01
  • Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

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Summary

The academic Kitchen tells the story of the evolution of an all-women's department, the Department of Home Economics, at the University of California, Berkeley from 1905 to 1954. The book's unique focus on the connection between gender and the status of a particular academic department challenges organizational theorists and higher education specialists to reconsider their traditional analysis of academic departments. By incorporating gender in the analysis, Nerad reveals the process by which departments traditionally dominated by women, including education, library science, nursing, social welfare, and home economics, begin as separate (and unequal) programs and are subsequently eliminated (or sustained without economic rewards, prestige, and power) when administrators no longer regard them as useful.

Author Biography

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

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. ix
List of Tablesp. xi
Acknowledgmentsp. xiii
Introductionp. 1
From Social Reform Movement to Academic Study: Home Economicsp. 4
The Berkeley Sagap. 11
Creating a Department of Home Economics at the University of Californiap. 17
The Invisible Berkeley Women Studentsp. 18
Benjamin Ide Wheeler of Berkeley: "A Womanly Education to Be More Serviceable Wives and Mothers"p. 21
"All We Ask Is a Chance": The Second-Class Status of Women Students and the Establishment of Home Economics at Berkeleyp. 33
Jessica Peixotto, Lucy Sprague, Lucy Ward Stebbins: Living Down "Prejudices"p. 36
A "Women's Department": A Form of Segregation?p. 46
University Schooling for "the Housekeeper, Homemaker, and Mother"p. 51
The Frustrating Struggle for Faculty and Status as a Schoolp. 53
Developing an Organizational Structurep. 61
"Women Cannot Take Responsibility as Well as Men ..."p. 63
A Department after All, but Power Rests with the Presidentp. 67
Institution Builder: Agnes Fay Morganp. 73
Keeping a "Deep" Secretp. 76
Household "Science" or Household "Art"?p. 82
Gender Inequality Enhanced by the Warp. 84
Building an Institution: A Genius for Essentialsp. 87
In Search of Statusp. 89
Concentrating on What Affects Status: Quality of Faculty, Curriculum, Research, Outside Funding, Graduates' Careers, Committee Service, and Facilitiesp. 90
Securing Outside Research Fundingp. 106
The Career Choices and Employment of the Department's Students and the Graduate Group in Nutritionp. 107
A Name Change and a Fight: What's in a Name? Powerp. 120
From "The Peak of Eminence" to the End of a Separate Sphere: Berkeley Finds Home Economics an Embarrassmentp. 127
Conclusion: Lessonsp. 139
A Chronological History of Home Economics at the University of California, Berkeleyp. 143
Notesp. 151
Bibliographic Essayp. 173
Selected Bibliographyp. 179
Indexp. 187
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