FCS History: Online Historic Collections
- Everyday Life and Women in American, 1800-1920" This digital collection provides access to rare primary source material on American social, cultural, and popular history from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History, Duke University and The New York Public Library. It comprises thousands of fully searchable images (alongside transcriptions) of monographs, pamphlets, periodicals and broadsides addressing 19th and early 20th century political, social and gender issues, religion, race, education, employment, marriage, sexuality, home and family life, health, and pastimes, emphasizing conduct of life and domestic management literature, the daily lives of women and men, and contrasts in regional, urban and rural cultures."
- Interwar Culture (1917-1929)"both prominent and lesser-known periodicals published throughout the interwar period, covering various facets of culture, entertainment, fashion, home and family life, world current affairs, class, social and welfare issues. "
Follow "exhibitions" to collections of materials on the home, fashion, and culture. - Women's Magazine ArchiveFull runs of women's interest consumer magazines, 1880's through 2005. Browse and search to see messages from advertisers, writers, readers, about women's work and women's interests. Easy cross-generational comparisons are instructive.
FCS History: Books
- List of books on FCS HistoryThis is a live search, that is, it will update as we buy new titles. There are a lot of good ones here. I've pulled just a few to give you the flavor of what's available.
The Secret History of Home Economics by Call Number: Alden 7th TX139 .D74 2021ISBN: 9781324004493Publication Date: 2021The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. . . . 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. . . . This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a denigrated subject to its rightful importance, as it reminds us that everyone should learn how to cook a meal, balance their account, and fight for a better world.
Creating Consumers by Call Number: Alden 7th TX654 .G65 2012ISBN: 9780807835531Publication Date: 2012Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. . . . . Goldstein looks beyond 1970s feminist scholarship that dismissed home economics for its emphasis on domesticity to reveal the movement's complexities, including the extent of its public impact and debates about home economists' relationship to the commercial marketplace.- From Domesticity to Modernity: What was Home Economics?Call Number: http://alice.library.ohio.edu:80/record=b3274055~S7Publication Date: 2001Digital exhibit in celebration of the New York State College of Human Ecology's Centennial. Includes common home ec topics, interviews, a timeline, bibliography.
Stir It Up by Call Number: Alden 7th TX23 .E45 2008ISBN: 9780812240795Publication Date: 2008. . . home economics began as an idealistic reform movement in higher education in the early 1900s. Leaders of this movement sought to discover and disseminate the best methods for performing domestic work while creating new professional options for women that were based on elements of home life. .. . . Stir It Up explains what the successes and failures of home economists can tell us about American culture. The book concludes with an examination of contemporary attitudes toward domesticity, putting the phenomena of Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray, Ty Pennington, and the "Mommy Wars" into historical context.
Design at Home by Call Number: alden th TX57 .L44 2014ISBN: 9780415656696Publication Date: 2013Design at Home brings together etiquette, homemaking and home decoration advice as sources in the first systematic demonstration of the historical value of domestic advice literature as a genre of word and image, and a discourse of dominance.
