The Home Economics Story - 1951 Social Guidance / Educational Documentary " - Val73TV"

Four years at the Iowa State Teachers' College Home Economics Division is summarized in this film.

What is home economics? It is an interdisciplinary field that unites the arts and sciences with traditionally female activities, thus feminizing many otherwise neutral activities. In home economics, physics classes teach toaster-testing, and women chemists study the interaction of tomato soup and milk. Says the narrator: "All the classes seemed to fit together. Even the physics class was what a...

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