Academic Kitchen A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley

Name: Academic Kitchen A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley
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ISBN: 9780791439708

ISBN-10: 0791439704

ISBN-13: 9780791439708

Edition: 1999

Authors: Maresi Nerad

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication date: 1/7/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 195
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English



List of Illustrations


List of Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction


From Social Reform Movement to Academic Study: Home Economics


The Berkeley Saga


Creating a Department of Home Economics at the University of California


The Invisible Berkeley Women Students


Benjamin Ide Wheeler of Berkeley: "A Womanly Education to Be More Serviceable Wives and Mothers"


"All We Ask Is a Chance": The Second-Class Status of Women Students and the Establishment of Home Economics at Berkeley


Jessica Peixotto, Lucy Sprague, Lucy Ward Stebbins: Living Down "Prejudices"


A "Women's Department": A Form of Segregation?


University Schooling for "the Housekeeper, Homemaker, and Mother"


The Frustrating Struggle for Faculty and Status as a School


Developing an Organizational Structure


"Women Cannot Take Responsibility as Well as Men ..."


A Department after All, but Power Rests with the President


Institution Builder: Agnes Fay Morgan


Keeping a "Deep" Secret


Household "Science" or Household "Art"?


Gender Inequality Enhanced by the War


Building an Institution: A Genius for Essentials


In Search of Status


Concentrating on What Affects Status: Quality of Faculty, Curriculum, Research, Outside Funding, Graduates' Careers, Committee Service, and Facilities


Securing Outside Research Funding


The Career Choices and Employment of the Department's Students and the Graduate Group in Nutrition


A Name Change and a Fight: What's in a Name? Power


From "The Peak of Eminence" to the End of a Separate Sphere: Berkeley Finds Home Economics an Embarrassment


Conclusion: Lessons


A Chronological History of Home Economics at the University of California, Berkeley


Notes


Bibliographic Essay


Selected Bibliography


Index