Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction Home Economics, What's in a Name? 1
6. Section I. More Than Glorified Housekeeping
7. 1. Ellen Richards and the Social Significance of the Home Economics Movement 17
8. 2. Spreading the Germ Theory: Sanitary Science and Home Economics, 1880-1930 34
9. 3. Modernizing Mothers: Home Economics and the Parent Education Movement, 1920-1945 55
10. Section II. Women's Place: Home Economics Education
11. 4. Liberal Arts or Vocational Training? Home Economics Education for Girls 79
12. 5. The Men Move In: Home Economics, 1950-1970 96
13. Section III. They Cannot All Be Teachers: Forging Careers in Home Economics
14. 6. Home Economists in the Hospital, 1900-1930 125
15. 7. Legitimizing Nutrition Education: The Impact of The Great Depression 145
16. 8. "Where Mrs. Homemaker is Never Forgotten": Lucy Maltby and Home Economics at Corning Glass Works, 1929-1965 163
17. Section IV. Home Economics, Race, Class, and Ethnicity
18. 9. Defining the Profession and the Good Life: Home Economics on Film 189
19. 10. Grace under Pressure: The Black Home Extension Service in South Carolina, 1919-1966 203
20. Section V. Who Speaks for the Consumer? Home Economics and Business
21. 11. Agents of Modernity: Home Economists and Rural Electrification, 1925-1950 237
22. 12. Safeguarded by Your Refrigerator: Mary Engle Pennington's Struggle with the National Association of Ice Industries 253
23. 13. Part of the Package: Home Economists in the Consumer Products Industries, 1920-1940 271
24. 14. Home Economics Moves into the Twenty-First Century 301
25. Chronology of Events and Movements Which Have Defined and Shaped Home Economics 321
26. Suggested Reading 331
27. Contributors 335
28. Index 339