Family and Consumer Sciences

Cook Together, Eat Together is designed to help families enjoy more home-cooked, healthy meals.

In Diner, dudes, and diets, Emily Contois examines contemporary food culture and a variety of its consumer products to reveal how the food, marketing, and media industries sought to create new markets by catering to men through the idea of 'the dude.'

An innovative history of the fashion industry, focusing on the connections between Paris and New York, art and finance, and design and manufacturing.

In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment.

Still a Mother is about the experiences of noncustodial mothers who have lost or ceded custody to an ex-partner.

Explore two dozen of the most glamorous, scandalous, and history-making Oscar looks in Beyond the Best Dressed, film and culture critic Esther Zuckerman's personality-filled romp through red carpet fashion, complete with original fashion drawings from illustrator Montana Forbes.

Overtime offers a current, revelatory corrective to our understanding of the future of the American workforce and aging.

One morning Taylor Harris's twenty-two-month-old wakes up listless and unresponsive. She rushes him to the doctor, where her maternal instincts are confirmed: something is wrong. With every question the doctors answer about Tophs's increasingly troubling symptoms, more arise, and Taylor dives into the search for a diagnosis. When Taylor brings Tophs to a geneticist, she hopes that this time, she'll leave with answers. The test reveals nothing about what's causing Tophs's drops in blood sugar, his processing delays - but it does reveal something unexpected about Taylor's own health. What if her son's challenges have saved her life? And how can she choose the best path forward?

A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes, from the former poet laureate of Kentucky.