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Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America
Creating Consumers Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America
Author: Carolyn M. Goldstein
Home economics emerged at the turn of the twentieth century as a movement to train women to be more efficient household managers. At the same moment, American families began to consume many more goods and services than they produced. To guide women in this transition, professional home economists had two major goals: to teach women to assume the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807835531
ISBN-10: 0807835536
Publication Date: 5/28/2012
Pages: 456
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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