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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 the status of a particular academic department 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.

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Maresi Nerad is Director of Graduate Research at the University of California, Berkeley

List of Illustrations	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
From Social Reform Movement to Academic Study: Home Economics	p. 4
The Berkeley Saga	p. 11
Creating a Department of Home Economics at the University of California	p. 17
The Invisible Berkeley Women Students	p. 18
Benjamin Ide Wheeler of Berkeley: "A Womanly Education to Be More Serviceable Wives and Mothers"	p. 21
"All We Ask Is a Chance": The Second-Class Status of Women Students and the Establishment of Home Economics at Berkeley	p. 33
Jessica Peixotto, Lucy Sprague, Lucy Ward Stebbins: Living Down "Prejudices"	p. 36
A "Women's Department": A Form of Segregation?	p. 46
University Schooling for "the Housekeeper, Homemaker, and Mother"	p. 51
The Frustrating Struggle for Faculty and Status as a School	p. 53
Developing an Organizational Structure	p. 61
"Women Cannot Take Responsibility as Well as Men ..."	p. 63
A Department after All, but Power Rests with the President	p. 67
Institution Builder: Agnes Fay Morgan	p. 73
Keeping a "Deep" Secret	p. 76
Household "Science" or Household "Art"?	p. 82
Gender Inequality Enhanced by the War	p. 84
Building an Institution: A Genius for Essentials	p. 87
In Search of Status	p. 89
Concentrating on What Affects Status: Quality of Faculty, Curriculum, Research, Outside Funding, Graduates' Careers, Committee Service, and Facilities	p. 90
Securing Outside Research Funding	p. 106
The Career Choices and Employment of the Department's Students and the Graduate Group in Nutrition	p. 107
A Name Change and a Fight: What's in a Name? Power	p. 120
From "The Peak of Eminence" to the End of a Separate Sphere: Berkeley Finds Home Economics an Embarrassment	p. 127
Conclusion: Lessons	p. 139
A Chronological History of Home Economics at the University of California, Berkeley	p. 143
Notes	p. 151
Bibliographic Essay	p. 173
Selected Bibliography	p. 179
Index	p. 187
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The Academic Kitchen: A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley

The Academic Kitchen: A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley

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