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Journalist Danielle Dreilinger resurrects, elevates, and applauds the superwoman, subversive history of \u201chome economics,\u201d a field now more unjustly lampooned than deservedly lauded. Dreilinger\u2019s preface, \u201cEverything You Know about Home Economics Is Wrong,\u201d promises \u2013 and veteran narrator Rachel Perry splendidly delivers \u2013 150 years of immersive storytelling that includes the pioneering advances of MIT\u2019s first female student, Ellen Swallow Richards, a chemist \u201cwho believed fervently in the power of science to free women from \u2018drudgery,\u2019\u201d and Margaret Murray Washington (Booker T.\u2019s second wife), who \u201cthought improving the home would end racial inequality.\u201d<\/p>\n