Welcome back to Home Economics class! Did you keep your flour baby/egg/baby doll/real human baby alive over the last month? Maybe you'd like to teach it some deeply flawed early Child Psychology? In Part 2, you'll learn how Home Ec went from subverting to perpetuating traditional gender roles in the postwar era due to an unlikely culprit. We'll dive into the Home Ec that exists in the popular imagination, and the "Marriage Course" that now exists in Julia and Nicole's nightmares. And, finally, we will put a baked sweet potato at the top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, where it rightfully belongs.
Our theme song is "Red Onions" by Louie Zong, off of his album Vegetable Soul: https://louiezong.bandcamp.com/album/vegetable-soul
We're on Instagram @girlslunchpod. Nicole's website is nicolehylton.com. Have an episode suggestion or question? You can email us at girlslunchpodcast@gmail.com and we will add it to our chaotic list of future episode subjects.
Links to Sources:
"The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live," by Danielle Dreilinger
HEARTH - Home Economics Archive: Research, Tradition, History
"The Bureau of Home Economics: How Women Harnessed the Power of Science and Nutrition to Help Fight WWII and Improve Life on the Home Front," by Erika Whinihan
"Giant Food's First Supermarket", by Lawrence Bush
"Carlisle Origin of Giant," by Ryan Burke
