The academic kitchen : a social history of gender stratification at the University of California, Berkeley
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The academic kitchen : a social history of gender stratification at the University of California, Berkeley
（SUNY series frontiers in education）
State University of New York Press, c1999
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-186) and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
From Social Reform Movement to Academic Study: Home Economics
The Berkeley Saga
1. Creating a Department of Home Economics at the University of California
The Invisible Berkeley Women Students
Benjamin Ide Wheeler of Berkeley: "A Womanly Education to Be More Serviceable Wives and Mothers"
"All We Ask Is a Chance": The Second-Class Status of Women Students and the Establishment of Home Economics at Berkeley
Jessica Peixotto, Lucy Sprague, Lucy Ward Stebbins: Living Down "Prejudices"
A "Women's Department": A Form of Segregation?
2. University Schooling for "the Housekeeper, Homemaker, and Mother"
The Frustrating Struggle for Faculty and Status as a School
Developing an Organizational Structure
"Women Cannot Take Responsibility as Well as Men ..."
A Department after All, but Power Rests with the President
3. Institution Builder: Agnes Fay Morgan
Keeping a "Deep" Secret
Household "Science" or Household "Art"?
Gender Inequality Enhanced by the War
Building an Institution: A Genius for Essentials
4. In Search of Status
Concentrating on What Affects Status: Quality of Faculty, Curriculum, Research, Outside Funding, Graduates' Careers, Committee Service, and Facilities
Securing Outside Research Funding
The Career Choices and Employment of the Department's Students and the Graduate Group in Nutrition
A Name Change and a Fight: What's in a Name? Power
5. From "The Peak of Eminence" to the End of a Separate Sphere: Berkeley Finds Home Economics an Embarrassment
Conclusion: Lessons
Appendix: A Chronological History of Home Economics at the University of California, Berkeley
Notes
Bibliographic Essay
Selected Bibliography
Index
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