| The Academic Kitchen: A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley Contributor(s): Nerad, Maresi (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791439704 ISBN-13: 9780791439708 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 1999 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | History - Social Science | Gender Studies - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 640.711 |
| LCCN: 98-11597 |
| Series: Suny Series, Frontiers in Education |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.78" W x 8.78" (0.59 lbs) 195 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Geographic Orientation - California - Cultural Region - Western U.S. - Cultural Region - West Coast |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Presents a social history of gender stratification at the University of California at Berkeley through a combination of organizational theory and biography. |