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...