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Adelaide Hoodless : domestic crusader /
Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, lifelong crusader for the recognition of the domestic sciences (cooking, sewing, childcare and housework) and an early proponent of home economics in Canada, was considered one of the radical new woman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She helped turn th...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
Dundurn Press,
1986.
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| Colección: | Dundurn lives.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Adelaide Hunter Hoodless, lifelong crusader for the recognition of the domestic sciences (cooking, sewing, childcare and housework) and an early proponent of home economics in Canada, was considered one of the radical new woman of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She helped turn the Canadian YWCA into a national organization. She founded the Women's Institute, assisted in the founding of the Victorian Order of Nurses and represented Canada on numerous International Councils of Women, as well as establishing the first school for the training of domestic science teachers in. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-181) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781554880669 1554880661 9781459714304 145971430X 9786611961855 6611961852 |