Adventures of a Home Economist
Author | : Ava Milam Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Ava Milam Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Franco Modigliani |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
An autobiography that reads like a novel, this Italian refugee's story is far more than a journey through economic thinking--it is a study of the great historical, political and economic events of the past 60 years.
Author | : Ava Milam Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780598218599 |
Author | : Danielle Dreilinger |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1324004509 |
The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today. In the surprising, often fiercely feminist and always fascinating The Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field’s history from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies. These women—and they were mostly women—became chemists and marketers, studied nutrition, health, and exercise, tested parachutes, created astronaut food, and took bold steps in childhood development and education. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by women of color who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics’ women, as they chose to be single, share lives with other women, or try for egalitarian marriages. This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a denigrated subject to its rightful importance, as it reminds us that everyone should learn how to cook a meal, balance their account, and fight for a better world.
Author | : Helen M. Schneider |
Publisher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2011-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0774819944 |
For many, the term home economics conjures images of sterile classrooms where young girls and women learn to cook dinner and swaddle dolls, far removed from the seats of power. Keeping the Nation’s House unsettles this assumption by revealing how elite Chinese women helped to build modern China one family at a time. Trained between the 1920s and the early 1950s, home economists believed that their discipline would transform the most fundamental of political spaces – the home – by teaching women to nurture ideal families and manage projects of social reform. Although their discipline came undone after 1949, it created a legacy of gendered professionalism and reinforced the idea that leaders should shape domestic rituals of the people. By focusing on an overlooked group of Chinese women, this book genders the past by showing how these women helped make the present, and it reveals how a group of intellectuals made the transition to the Communist era.
Author | : |
Publisher | : Heinemann |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780435980474 |
The new edition of Home Economics in Action has been extensively revised and updated to take account of recent curriculum developments throughout the Caribbean region.This three-book course provides a firm foundation in Home Economics to all lower second
Author | : William R. Easterly |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2002-08-02 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0262260654 |
Why economists' attempts to help poorer countries improve their economic well-being have failed. Since the end of World War II, economists have tried to figure out how poor countries in the tropics could attain standards of living approaching those of countries in Europe and North America. Attempted remedies have included providing foreign aid, investing in machines, fostering education, controlling population growth, and making aid loans as well as forgiving those loans on condition of reforms. None of these solutions has delivered as promised. The problem is not the failure of economics, William Easterly argues, but the failure to apply economic principles to practical policy work. In this book Easterly shows how these solutions all violate the basic principle of economics, that people—private individuals and businesses, government officials, even aid donors—respond to incentives. Easterly first discusses the importance of growth. He then analyzes the development solutions that have failed. Finally, he suggests alternative approaches to the problem. Written in an accessible, at times irreverent, style, Easterly's book combines modern growth theory with anecdotes from his fieldwork for the World Bank.
Author | : Carolyn M. Goldstein |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0807835536 |
"Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. At the same moment, American families began to consume many more goods and services than they produced. To guide women in th
Author | : Dianne K. Kieren |
Publisher | : Ronald P Frye & Company |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Helping behavior |
ISBN | : 9780919741300 |
Author | : Sara Pursley |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1503607496 |
Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements. It also emerged as an early laboratory of development projects designed by Iraqi intellectuals, British colonial officials, American modernization theorists, and postwar international agencies. Familiar Futures considers how such projects—from the country's creation under British mandate rule in 1920 through the 1958 revolution to the first Ba'th coup in 1963—reshaped Iraqi everyday habits, desires, and familial relations in the name of a developed future. Sara Pursley investigates how Western and Iraqi policymakers promoted changes in schooling, land ownership, and family law to better differentiate Iraq's citizens by class, sex, and age. Peasants were resettled on isolated family farms; rural boys received education limited to training in agricultural skills; girls were required to take home economics courses; and adolescents were educated on the formation of proper families. Future-oriented discourses about the importance of sexual difference to Iraq's modernization worked paradoxically, deferring demands for political change in the present and reproducing existing capitalist relations. Ultimately, the book shows how certain goods—most obviously, democratic ideals—were repeatedly sacrificed in the name of the nation's economic development in an ever-receding future.