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Domestic Science - A Feminist Movement
Food is to build a healthy body, a healthy mind and healthy moral core. And cooking could be a serious, meaningful scientific job. Daniel drilinger points out all this focus on making cooking a meaningful career might have had something to do with who was now responsible for it. Much of it was about the fact that these higher class women were now having to do this work. So there was an ego problem with doing work that you thought was drudgery. How much of the professionalization of the home was just designed to make those women feel better about doing this? Still dry langer says, domestic science,. which later came to being called home economics, was a way for some upper