Domestic science, also known as Home Economics, and now more commonly referred to as Family and Consumer Sciences, came into being as an academic field of study around the turn
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The women who pioneered home economics knew that a better home life would improve society. Danielle Dreilinger documents them in her new book, “The Secret History of Home Economics.”