The Secret History Of Home Economics LASGL Illustrated by Amanda Quartey

Illustrated by Amanda Quartey

reconnaissance

By Francis Gary Powers Jr

This mission’s going to be rough

The Secret History Of Home Economics LASGL Illustrated by Amanda QuarteyThe 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