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The science of housework :the home and public health, 1880-1940 / the home and public health, 1880-1940 / Ann Oakley.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Bristol : Policy Press, 2024Copyright date: ©2024Description: xxii, 244 pages. illustrations, mapsISBN:
  • 9781447369622
  • 9781447369622
  • 9781447369622
  • 9781447369622
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • TX19.O24 2024 2
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Contents:
List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue : my life in housework -- Introduction : from the sociology to the science of housework -- Gender and germs : housework today -- Teaching girls about housework -- Sweeping science into the home -- This man-made world --Lectures for ladies -- Alice through the cooking class -- Transatlantic experiments -- Sources of power -- White subjects : domestic science in the colonies and other places -- Legacies and meanings - Appendix : list of characters -- Notes -- Additional sources - Index.
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Books Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). TX19.O24 2024 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0199217
Books Gabriel Afolabi Ojo Central Library (Headquarters). TX19.O24 2024 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 0199218

List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue : my life in housework -- Introduction : from the sociology to the science of housework -- Gender and germs : housework today -- Teaching girls about housework -- Sweeping science into the home -- This man-made world --Lectures for ladies -- Alice through the cooking class -- Transatlantic experiments -- Sources of power -- White subjects : domestic science in the colonies and other places -- Legacies and meanings - Appendix : list of characters -- Notes -- Additional sources - Index.

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