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Remaking Home Economics: Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Nickols, Sharon Y.; Kay, Gwen. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 614.
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 historical perspectives on defining issues including home economics philosophy, social ... Read more
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 historical perspectives on defining issues including home economics philosophy, social ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820348063
SKU
V9780820348063
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99-1
About Unknown
Sharon Y. Nickols is dean and professor emerita of family and consumer sciences at the University of Georgia, USA. She received the Nellie Kedzie Jones Lifetime Achievement Award (Board on Human Sciences, Association of Land-Grant Colleges and Universities) for her many years of leadership in the field of human sciences. Gwen Kay is a professor of history and director ... Read more
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