Much More Than Muffins: The Women Scientists Who Invented Home Ec
Students in a home economics class in Daytona Beach, Fl., in 1943. “Home economics was far more than baking lumpy blueberry muffins, sewing throw pillows or lugging a bag of flour around in a baby sling to learn the perils of parenting,” Danielle Dreilinger writes. “In its purest form, home economics was about changing the world through the household.”Credit...Gordon Parks/Library of Congress
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THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS
How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live
By Danielle Dreilinger