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Where the F*ck Did Home Economics Go?!?
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Episode Title: “Where the F*ck Did Home Economics Go?!?”
Handicraft and Stitch: The Podcast
Home Ec isn’t just about sewing aprons and baking casseroles—and it never was. In this fiery episode, we’re pulling back the curtain on the real roots of Home Economics and asking why it disappeared from classrooms (and our lives). Spoiler: it has everything to do with power, gender, and who gets to decide what's considered "serious education."
We spotlight the story of Ellen Swallow Richards, the unsung science badass and first female student at MIT who practically invented the field of Home Economics. She believed women deserved access to science and viewed the home as a site of innovation and empowerment, rather than drudgery.
We’re talking kitchen chemistry, class dynamics, and the slow erasure of skills that should’ve never gone out of style. So grab your embroidery, your grocery list, or just your curiosity, and let’s reclaim the radical roots of “women’s work.”
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