The Academic Kitchen : A Social History of Gender Stratification at the University of California, Berkeley
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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 departmental status 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.
List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1Ch. 1Creating a Department of Home Economics at the University of California17The Invisible Berkeley Women Students18Benjamin Ide Wheeler of Berkeley: "A Womanly Education to Be More Serviceable Wives and Mothers"21"All We Ask Is a Chance": The Second-Class Status of Women Students and the Establishment of Home Economics at Berkeley33Jeasica Peixotto, Lucy Sprague, Lucy Ward Stebbins: Living Down "Prejudices"36A "Women's Department": A Form of Segregation?48Ch. 2University Schooling for "the Housekeeper, Homemaker, and Mother"51The Frustrating Struggle for Faculty and Status as a School53Developing an Organizational Structure61"Women Cannot Take Responsibility as Well as Men..."63A Department after All, but Power Rests with the President67Ch. 3Institution Builder: Agnes Fay Morgan73Keeping a "Deep" Secret76Household "Science" or Household "Art"?82Gender Inequality Enhanced by the War84Building an Institution: A Genius for Essentials87Ch. 4In Search of Status89Concentrating on What Affects Status: Quality of Faculty, Curriculum, Research, Outside Funding, Graduates' Careers, Committee Service, and Facilities90Securing Outside Research Funding106The Career Choices and Employment of the Department's Students and the Graduate Group in Nutrition107A Name Change and a Fight: What's in a Name? Power120Ch. 5From "The Peak of Eminence" to the End of a Separate Sphere: Berkeley Finds Home Economics an Embarrassment127Conclusion Lessons139AppA Chronological History of Home Economics at the University of California, Berkeley143Notes151Bibliographic Essay173Selected Bibliography179Index187
