A review by pamiverson
The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live by Danielle Dreilinger

4.0

Interesting look at the professionalization of “women’s work,” the women who early on saw the need to be more systematic and to educate others, organizing, how Black women established parallel organizations, reactions to the wars and to the conservatism after World War II, challenges by feminists, particularly Robin Morgan, and how that changed peoples’ perspectives. The author believes there is still a need for the discipline. It was surprising, thought-provoking.