International Federation of Home Economics:
Provides an international forum for home economists to develop and
express concerns for individuals, families, and households at the
United Nations and among other international non-governmental
organisations whose interests parallel those of home economics.
http://www.ifhe.org/
Family and Consumer Science Resources Online:
Annotated list of Internet resources covering the field of Home
Economics/Family and Consumer Science.
http://members.tripod.com/~kburge/fcs.html
History of Women and Science, Health, and Technology:
Bibliography of home economics and domestic science professions and
their disciplines.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/WomensStudies/bibliogs/hws/hws08.htm
The Ecology of the Family:
Background paper for a family-centered approach to education and
social service delivery.
http://www.nwrel.org/cfc/publications/ecology2.html
Rural American Women and Directed Cultural Change:
Shows the effect of the domestic science movement on individual farm
women in the early 20th century. By Laura Carroll.
http://lilt.ilstu.edu/soa/html/anthrothesis/carroll/carroll.html
History of Home Economics:
Notes on early home economics extension work in Iowa including a
statement concerning the development of home economics teaching at
Iowa State College.
http://www.exnet.iastate.edu/polk/history/homeec.html
From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?:
Cornell University Library exhibition on the history of home
economics. Traces the in history of the profession, provides a
timeline, biographies, bibliography and interviews.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/homeEc/
ScienzFair Project Ideas - Consumer Science:
A set of science fair projects and ideas related to home economics
and consumer science.
http://members.aol.com/ScienzFair/consumer.htm
Home Economics Institue of Australia:
Professional association for home economists. Includes member
information, publications, news, chat, student links and related
resources.
http://www.heia.com.au/
The Home Economics Database:
A searchable bibliography of articles in the field of home
economics, family studies and consumer sciences, covering
technological, social and economic aspects of both private and
institutional households.
http://www.agralin.nl/huisho/
Forum for Family and Consumer Issues:
A refereed e-journal designed to integrate, appply, and transmit
knowledge about issues of current interest in Family and Consumer
Sciences.
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/fcs/pub/forum.html
Taking ADvantage:
An online book with the thesis that advertising creates stimuli that
take advantage of human subconscious processing which is a
particular product of physical and cultural human evolution.
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~taflinge/advant.html
Consumer Culture Bibliography:
Contains references on consumer culture, compiled by Don Slater.
http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/slater/consumer/biblioa.htm
What's Driving Consumption?:
A debate in Boston Review, centered around Juliet Schor's "The New
Politics of Consumption", includes comments by Robert H. Frank,
James Twitchell, and others.
http://bostonreview.mit.edu/ndf.html#Consumption
Home Economics Archive:
Electronic collection of historic books and journals in Home
Economics and related disciplines. The full text of these materials,
as well as bibliographies and essays are available.
http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/
