Feminist Home Economics

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Wasting Girls' Time: The History and Politics of Home Economics
Wasting Girls' Time: The History and Politics of Home Economics 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture
Radical Homemakers: Reclaiming Domesticity from a Consumer Culture 3.81 avg rating — 2,122 ratings
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More Work For Mother
More Work For Mother 4.07 avg rating — 410 ratings
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Never Done: A History of American Housework
Never Done: A History of American Housework 3.80 avg rating — 225 ratings
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Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America
Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Country House Servant
The Country House Servant 3.68 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke
The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke 3.87 avg rating — 2,351 ratings
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Housework and Housewives in American Advertising: Married to the Mop
Housework and Housewives in American Advertising: Married to the Mop 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home (The Founders Series)
Divided Paths, Common Ground: The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science into the Home (The Founders Series) 3.75 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Great American Housewife: From Helpmate to Wage Earner, 1776-1986
The Great American Housewife: From Helpmate to Wage Earner, 1776-1986 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the Twenty-First Century
The Meaning of Wife: A Provocative Look at Women and Marriage in the Twenty-First Century 3.67 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management 3.83 avg rating — 1,382 ratings
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American Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those Who are Not Ashamed of Economy
American Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those Who are Not Ashamed of Economy 3.43 avg rating — 1,100 ratings
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Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity
Homeward Bound: Why Women are Embracing the New Domesticity 3.47 avg rating — 1,465 ratings
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"Just a Housewife": The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America
"Just a Housewife": The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America 3.88 avg rating — 60 ratings
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A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances
A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances 4.08 avg rating — 400 ratings
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Historically black land-grant institutions and the development of agriculture and home economics, 1890-1990
Historically black land-grant institutions and the development of agriculture and home economics, 1890-1990 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote
Eat My Words: Reading Women's Lives Through the Cookbooks They Wrote 3.45 avg rating — 143 ratings
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Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House
Home Comforts: The Art and Science of Keeping House 4.16 avg rating — 3,393 ratings
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Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture
Dinner Roles: American Women and Culinary Culture 3.25 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America 3.79 avg rating — 870 ratings
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The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish
The Lost Art of Dress: The Women Who Once Made America Stylish 3.87 avg rating — 1,073 ratings
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A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression
A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression 3.75 avg rating — 2,207 ratings
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Remaking Home Economics: Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times
Remaking Home Economics: Resourcefulness and Innovation in Changing Times 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945
Sold American: Consumption and Citizenship, 1890-1945 3.89 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Creating Home Economics Futures: : The Next 100 Years
Creating Home Economics Futures: : The Next 100 Years 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Buying for the Home: Shopping for the Domestic from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Buying for the Home: Shopping for the Domestic from the Seventeenth Century to the Present really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice
From Catharine Beecher to Martha Stewart: A Cultural History of Domestic Advice 3.48 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture
Stir It Up: Home Economics in American Culture 3.77 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession (Culture; 4)
Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession (Culture; 4) 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (California Studies in Food and Culture, 24)
Perfection Salad: Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century (California Studies in Food and Culture, 24) 3.80 avg rating — 452 ratings
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Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77
Wages for Housework: A History of an International Feminist Movement, 1972-77 4.27 avg rating — 22 ratings
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What is Work?: Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present
What is Work?: Gender at the Crossroads of Home, Family, and Business from the Early Modern Era to the Present 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food
Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America's First Lady of Food 3.66 avg rating — 478 ratings
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A Woman's Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists, and Single Moms Who Changed the World with Food
A Woman's Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists, and Single Moms Who Changed the World with Food 3.90 avg rating — 149 ratings
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Domestic Occupations: Spatial Rhetorics and Women’s Work
Domestic Occupations: Spatial Rhetorics and Women’s Work 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Food Blogs, Postfeminism, and the Communication of Expertise: Digital Domestics
Food Blogs, Postfeminism, and the Communication of Expertise: Digital Domestics really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Digital Domesticity: Media, Materiality, and Home Life
Digital Domesticity: Media, Materiality, and Home Life 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live 3.87 avg rating — 2,190 ratings
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How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America
How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America 4.08 avg rating — 2,245 ratings
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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live 3.87 avg rating — 2,190 ratings
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Imagining Gender, Nation, and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s
Imagining Gender, Nation, and Consumerism in Magazines of the 1920s 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right
Mothers of Conservatism: Women and the Postwar Right 3.85 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash
Waste and Want: A Social History of Trash 3.82 avg rating — 451 ratings
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The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South
The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women: Stories of Landscape and Community in the Mountain South 4.44 avg rating — 126 ratings
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The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes
The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes 3.82 avg rating — 720 ratings
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How to Keep House While Drowning
How to Keep House While Drowning 4.22 avg rating — 72,935 ratings
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Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 78)
Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (California Studies in Food and Culture) (Volume 78) 4.32 avg rating — 154 ratings
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In a New Light: Histories of Women and Energy
In a New Light: Histories of Women and Energy 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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At Home in the Eighteenth Century: Interrogating Domestic Space
At Home in the Eighteenth Century: Interrogating Domestic Space 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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The Home-Maker and Her Job
The Home-Maker and Her Job 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Orchids on Your Budget
Orchids on Your Budget 3.81 avg rating — 421 ratings
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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World 4.15 avg rating — 2,487 ratings