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The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live Amy Griffin though their lives couldn't be"Deeply researched and crisply written." Margaret Talbot,? The New Yorker The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term home economics may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing