Why Home Economics?

Is it only about cooking?

http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/
In the framed box, there is a brief history of the term "home economics" and how it originated, etc. Be sure you click on various links, and you'll find additional information.

http://members.tripod.com/~kburge/fcs.html
"Family and Consumer Science" is a new term for this whole field. Interesting site.

http://www.educationindex.com/homeec/
All kinds of resources here -- for the purpose of discovering many, many names of additional branches of the field, as well as specific course names.

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HISTORY OF HOME ECONOMICS