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Academic Kitchen: A Social History Of Gender Stratification At The University Of California, Berkeley
Author: Nerad, Maresi
Suny Series, Frontiers in Education; Hardcover; Illustrated
Published: December 1998
State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791439690

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'sunique 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


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