An examination of the characteristics and evolution of both Home Economics (HE) and women in development focuses on pivotal issues at the intersection of these two fields. Data obtained from Denmark, the Caribbean, Africa, and the US show that HE was only for girls and focused on domestic work in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In Africa and the Caribbean HE was aimed at training girls as domestic servants. In the last half of the 20th century HE welcomed, and sometimes even required, males to attend classes and the criteria was broadened to include health and consumer education. In many areas HE has improved standards of living and helped to address such important issues as teenage pregnancy, school dropout, and domestic violence.
Olaniyan,Tejumola (Author) and Sweet,James H. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
363 p., "Most of the book's chapters derive from a two-day international symposium held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in March 2006." Includes Paget Henry's "Caribbean Sociology, Africa, and the African Diaspora" and Carolyn Cooper's "African Diaspora Studies in the Creole-Anglophone Caribbean: A Perspective from the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica"
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
149 p., The story of four arts practitioners from Trinidad and Tobago —a lighting designer, a dancer, a jazz musician and a choreographer—who have made a name for themselves internationally. The work also centers on their role as educators in their fields.
"First let me congratulate UNESCO, UNICA and UWI for taking the initiative to host this Conference, and let me say how much I have enjoyed the enthusiastic advocacy for this field by Ms. Helene-Marie Gosselin of UNESCO. Her quarterly reports on Education and HIV/AIDS are a joy to read, both for substance and method of presentation. I also wish to congratulate Professor Kochhar and PVC Hamilton of the University of the West Indies for their work in organizing the conference...."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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521 p., Considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States— including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave trade— are common to most of the Americas. Contents include: Jane Landers' "Slave resistance on the southeastern frontier: fugitives, maroons, and banditti in the age of revolution"; J. Michael Dash's "Martinique/Mississippi: Edouard Glissant and relational insularity"; and Leigh Anne Duck's "Travel and transference: V.S. Naipaul and the plantation past."
