An interdisciplinary effort of scholars from history, women s studies, and family and consumer sciences, "Remaking Home Economics" covers the field s history of opening career opportunities for women and responding to domestic and social issues. Calls to bring back home economics miss the point that it never went away, say Sharon Y. Nickols and Gwen Kay home economics has been remaking itself, in study and practice, for more than a century. These new essays, relevant for a variety of fields history, women s studies, STEM, and family and consumer sciences itself take both current and...
An interdisciplinary effort of scholars from history, women s studies, and family and consumer sciences, "Remaking Home Economics" covers the field...
Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America's land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and the world. Service as Mandate, Alan I Marcus's second edited collection of insightful essays about land-grant universities, explores how these universities have adapted to meet the challenges of the past sixty-five years and how, having done so, they have helped to create the modern world. From their founding, land-grant schools have provided educational opportunities to millions, producing many of the nation's scientific,...
Established by the Morrill Land-Grant College Act of 1862, America's land-grant universities have had far-reaching influences on the United States and...
