“As members of the social whole”: A history of social reform as a focus of home economics, 1895–1940

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 104-126

  Apple, Rima D ^a   Coleman, Joyce ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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EID: 79957949740     PISSN: 1077727X     EISSN: 15523934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077727X03032002002     Document Type: Article

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