Description
Working for both business and government, home economists walked a fine line between educating and representing consumers while they shaped cultural expectations about consumer goods as well as the goods themselves. Goldstein looks beyond 1970s feminist scholarship that dismissed home economics for its emphasis on domesticity to reveal the movement's complexities, including the extent of its public impact and debates about home economists' relationship to the commercial marketplace.
About the Author
Carolyn M. Goldstein is an independent historian and author of Do It Yourself: Home Improvement in Twentieth-Century America.
Book Information
ISBN 9781469622149
Author Carolyn M. Goldstein
Format Paperback
Page Count 424
Imprint The University of North Carolina Press
Publisher The University of North Carolina Press