Creating Consumers: Home Economists in Twentieth-Century America

by Carolyn M. Goldstein

Book Overview

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 their new roles as modern consumers and to communicate homemakers' needs to manufacturers and political leaders...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469622149
• ISBN13: 9781469622149
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"