Rethinking Home Economics

by Stage, Sarah; Vincenti, Virginia B.

• ISBN13: 9780801429712
• ISBN10: 0801429714
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-05-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix	(2)
Francille M. Firebaugh
Joan Jacobs Brumberg
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction Home Economics, What's in a Name?	1	(14)
SARAH STAGE
Section I More Than Glorified Housekeeping	15	(62)
1 Ellen Richards and the Social Significance of the Home Economics Movement	17	(17)
SARAH STAGE
2 Spreading the Germ Theory: Sanitary Science and Home Economics, 1880-1930	34	(21)
NANCY TOMES
3 Modernizing Mothers: Home Economics and the Parent Education Movement, 1920-1945	55	(22)
JULIA GRANT
Section II Women's Place: Home Economics Education	77	(46)
4 Liberal Arts or Vocational Training? Home Economics Education for Girls	79	(17)
RIMA D. APPLE
5 The Men Move In: Home Economics in Higher Education, 1950-1970	96	(27)
MARGARET W. ROSSITER
Reminiscences	118	(5)
Marjorie East
Section III They Cannot All Be Teachers: Forging Careers in Home Economics	123	(64)
6 Home Economists in the Hospital, 1900-1930	125	(20)
LYNN K. NYHART
7 Legitimizing Nutrition Education: The Impact of the Great Depression	145	(18)
KATHLEEN R. BABBITT
8 "Where Mrs. Homemaker Is Never Forgotten": Lucy Maltby and Home Economics at Corning Glass Works, 1929-1965	163	(24)
REGINA LEE BLASZCZYK
Reminiscences	181	(6)
Hazel Reed
Section IV Home Economics, Race, Class, and Ethnicity	187	(48)
9 Defining the Profession and the Good Life: Home Economics on Film	189	(14)
JOAN JACOBS BRUMBERG
10 Grace under Pressure: The Black Home Extension Service in South Carolina, 1919-1966	203	(26)
CARMEN HARRIS
Reminiscences	229	(6)
Genevieve J. Wheeler Thomas
Section V Who Speaks for the Consumer? Home Economics and Business	235	(86)
11 Agents of Modernity: Home Economists and Rural Electrification, 1925-1950	237	(16)
RONALD R. KLINE
12 Safeguarded by Your Refrigerator: Mary Engle Pennington's Struggle with the National Association of Ice Industries	253	(18)
LISA MAE ROBINSON
13 Part of the Package: Home Economists in the Consumer Product Industries, 1920-1940	271	(26)
CAROLYN M. GOLDSTEIN
Reminiscences	297	(4)
Satenig St. Marie
14 Home Economics Moves into the Twenty-First Century	301	(20)
VIRGINIA B. VINCENTI
Chronology of Events and Movements Which Have Defined and Shaped Home Economics	321	(10)
VIRGINIA B. VINCENTI
Suggested Reading	331	(4)
Contributors	335	(6)
Index	341