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In the name of the home: Women, domestic science, and American higher education, 1865--1930.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	In the name of the home: Women, domestic science, and American higher education, 1865--1930./
Author:	Miller, Elisa.
Description:	331 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1511.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-04A.
Subject:	History, United States. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3130983
ISBN:	0496782312

In the name of the home: Women, domestic science, and American higher education, 1865--1930.
Miller, Elisa.

In the name of the home: Women, domestic science, and American higher education, 1865--1930. - 331 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-04, Section: A, page: 1511.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004.

This dissertation examines the development of domestic science as an academic field for American women at the turn of the century. In this period, domestic science transcended the private sphere and emerged as an ideology of political and public domesticity in response to the anxieties engendered by the massive transformations of the Progressive Era. The field became a way to contain or moderate the processes of modernity, including immigration, urbanization, and industrialization. In this context, domestic science was viewed as a solution to a wide range of social problems, from racial tensions and labor strife to "race suicide" and the decline in rural populations. These social problems centered on issues of race, class, ethnicity, and region. I examined four educational institutions to explore the influence of these variables on the history of domestic science. These schools included Hampton Institute, Teachers College, the University of Illinois and Vassar College. These institutions reveal how race, region, ethnicity, and class shaped the formation of the field and created disparate sets of obstacles and opportunities for American women. For white, middle-class women domestic science emphasized the value of modernization and science to progress. In contrast, for Native American, African American, white, working-class, and immigrant women, domestic science centered around Christianity, civilization, citizenship, and domestic service. My research included archival sources produced by and about women, including educators, students, alumnae, and reform clients. Domestic science in this period was wrought with contradictions, with women pursuing disparate, and often incompatible, objectives. These women employed a variety of tactics in order to establish, resist, and reconfigure the ideology and practice of domestic science. Although some women viewed domestic science as a form of social control, for others it provided a feminized sphere in which to pursue career, family, and reform goals.

ISBN: 0496782312Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017393
History, United States.

In the name of the home: Women, domestic science, and American higher education, 1865--1930.
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