Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: My life in housework
- 1 Introduction: From the sociology to the science of housework
- 2 Gender and germs: housework today
- 3 Teaching girls about housework
- 4 Sweeping science into the home
- 5 This man-made world
- 6 Lectures for ladies
- 7 Alice through the cooking class
- 8 Transatlantic experiments
- 9 Sources of power
- 10 White subjects: domestic science in the colonies and other places
- 11 Legacies and meanings
- Appendix: List of characters
- Notes
- Additional sources
- Index
Appendix: List of characters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2025
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue: My life in housework
- 1 Introduction: From the sociology to the science of housework
- 2 Gender and germs: housework today
- 3 Teaching girls about housework
- 4 Sweeping science into the home
- 5 This man-made world
- 6 Lectures for ladies
- 7 Alice through the cooking class
- 8 Transatlantic experiments
- 9 Sources of power
- 10 White subjects: domestic science in the colonies and other places
- 11 Legacies and meanings
- Appendix: List of characters
- Notes
- Additional sources
- Index
Summary
Abbott, Edith (1876–1957) US
Abel, Mary Hinman (1850–1938) US
Addams, Jane (1860–1935) US
Atkins, John (1875–1963) UK
Atkinson, Mabel (married name Palmer) (1876–1958) UK
Atwater, Wilbur Owen (1844–1907) US
Baddeley, Florence (1858–1923) UK
Barnett, Henrietta (1851–1936) UK
Barry, Alfred (1826–1910) UK
Beecher, Catharine (1800–1878) US
Beeton, Isabella (1836–1865) UK
Bell, Vanessa (1879–1961) UK
Benson, Clara (1875–1964) Canada
Bernege, Paulette (1896–1973) France
Bevier, Isabel (1860–1942) US
Black, Clementina (1853–1922) UK
Booth, Hubert Cecil (1871–1955) UK
Bondfield, Margaret (1873–1953) UK
Boys- Smith, Winifred (1865–1939) UK and New Zealand
Breckinridge, Sophonisba (1866–1948) US
Brereton, Maud Cloudesley (1872–1946) UK
Buckmaster, John Charles (1820–1908) UK
Buckton, Catherine (1826–1904) UK
Burstall, Sara (1859–1939) UK
Calder, Fanny (1838–1923) UK
Calloway, Doris (1923–2001) US
Campbell, Helen Stuart (1839–1918) US
Creighton, Louise (1850–1936) UK
Dendy, Arthur (1865–1925) UK
Dewey, Annie Godfrey (1850–1922) US
Elliott, S. Maria (1854–1942) US
Esdaile, Philippa (1888–1989) UK
Eyles, Leonora (1889–1960) UK
Faithfull, Lilian (1865–1952) UK
Finkelstein, Beatrice, US
Frederick, Christine (1883–1970) US
Freund, Ida (1863–1914) Austria and UK
Gabe, Frances (1915–2016) US
Gaekwad, Maharaja of (Sayajirao Gaekwad III) (1863–1939) India
Gilbreth, Frank (1868–1924) US
Gilbreth, Lillian (1878–1972) US
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (1860–1935) US
Gordon, Alice (1854–1929) UK
Gradwell, Cecil (1855–1942) UK
Greville, Daisy, Countess of Warwick (1861–1938) UK
Grey, Maria (1816–1906) UK
Hall, Radclyffe (1880–1943) UK
Haslett, Caroline (1895–1957) UK
Helgesen, Helga (1863–1935) Norway
Hewins, William (1865–1931) UK
Hoodless, Adelaide (1857–1910) Canada
Howes, Ethel Puffer (1872–1950) US
Hutchins, Bessie (E.L. Hutchins) (1858–1935) UK
Inoue, Hideko (1875–1963) Japan
Kedzie, Nellie (1858–1956) US
Kyrk, Hazel (1886–1967) US
Laird, Annie (1871–1939) US and New Zealand
Lancaster, Maud, UK (1870–1950)
Lane- Claypon, Janet (1877–1967)
Lathrop, Julia (1858–1932) US
Lawrence, Maude (1864–1933) UK
Lihotsky, Grete (Margarete Schutte- Lihotsky) (1897–2000) Austria
Macarthur, Mary (1880–1921) UK
MacDonald, Ishbel (1903–82) UK
Matheson, Cecile (1874–1950) UK
Matheson, Helen (1876–1936) UK
Matthews, Mabel (1879–1970) UK
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- The Science of HouseworkThe Home and Public Health, 1880-1940, pp. 207 - 209Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2024