Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2025-12-30

Books mentioned on What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec

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Home economics seems antiquated – a class that teaches high school kids how to bake a cake and sew doesn’t sound super useful. But would you believe that everything from the obesity epidemic to student debt can be chalked up to home ec disappearing?

Josh Clark discussed The Secret History of Home Economics by Danielle Dreilinger.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   The Secret History of Home Economics

   Danielle Dreilinger · at 22:07

   Discussed

   “and apparently um there's a writer historian named Danielle Dreilinger who wrote a book The Secret History of Home Economics and she said that um for adoptive parents who would go to a foster home, they'd show up and be like, "You got any one of them babies that's been in the home economic classes?"”

   Josh Clark What We Lost When We Lost Home Ec 2025-12-30 Listen at 22:07

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