Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession
ISBN: 9781501729942
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Home economics -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Women -- United States -- Social conditions;

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.


Virginia B. Vincenti is Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Wyoming and Past President of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences. Sarah Stage is Professor and Chair of Women's Studies at Arizona State University, West.

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