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
Contents
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
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Science of HouseworkThe Home and Public Health, 1880-1940, pp. vPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2024