Women's Studies, Education - History, United States History - Western, Plains & Rocky Mountain Region, Education - Social & Political Aspects, United States History - General & Miscellaneous, Women's History
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Overview
The Academic Kitchen tells the story of the evolution of an all-women's department, the Department of Home Economics, at the University of California, Berkeley from 1905 to 1954. The book's unique focus on the connection between gender and departmental status challenges organizational theorists and higher education specialists to reconsider their traditional analysis of academic departments. By incorporating gender in the analysis, Nerad reveals the process by which departments traditionally dominated by women, including education, library science, nursing, social welfare, and home economics, begin as separate (and unequal) programs and are subsequently eliminated (or sustained without economic rewards, prestige, and power) when administrators no longer regard them as useful.Editorials
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Explores the struggle between the academic women of the U. of California at Berkeley and the male administration to define the nature and mission of the home economics department and the contestation over the prestige of the department. In her analysis, the author argues that gender is proved to be an integral, but mostly overlooked, part of organizational history. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
December 30, 1998
Publisher
Albany : State University of New York Press, c1999.
Pages
195
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780791439692