Excerpt from Household Economics: A Course of Lectures in the School of Economics of the University of Wisconsin
If the title of the present volume read "Household Economies," it might be received with more favor, economies being the housewife"s usual conception of economics.
Yet economics it is, its prefix a wonder and a question; to the Greek foolishness, to the Jew a stumbling block, to political economists a misnomer. It is hoped that the present word will show clearly not only the reason of its adoption, but the absolute necessity for holding strenuously to it, as the keynote to the new movement.
For women and their thought about it what shall we say? From that day in which all industries and arts were in her hand, one by one they have slipped away. Of the ten noted by Professor O. E. Mason in his notable little book, Woman"s Share in Primitive Culture, in the conclusions of which he had already been seconded by Taylor, Lubbock, and other anthropologists, all but two have passed into the hands of men. These two, cooking and cleaning, save when men occasionally engage in them, remain in nearly as incoherent primitiveness as in that remote day in which she - mother and conserver of the race - first demonstrated her power to handle them.
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