Household Administration, Its Place in the Higher Education of Women
by Alice Ravenhill
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About this eBook
- Editor
- Schiff, Catherine J., 1884-1956
- Credits
- Produced by Katherine Ward, Jonathan Ingram, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TX: Technology: Home economics
- Subject
- Women -- Education
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 36781
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36781
- Release Date
- July 19, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.HOUSEHOLD ADMINISTRATION
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.A BRIEF HISTORICAL SKETCH OF WOMAN’S POSITION IN THE FAMILY By CATHERINE SCHIFF — FOOTNOTES:
- 5.THE PLACE OF BIOLOGY IN THE EQUIPMENT OF WOMEN By WENONA HOSKYNS-ABRAHALL, M.A. (Dublin) — COMMON-SENSE BIOLOGY — THE IMPORTANCE OF BACTERIOLOGY — METHOD OF STUDY — COMMON-SENSE BIOLOGY AS AN ART — THE GAINS AND LOSSES OF CIVILISATION — THE INFLUENCE OF COMMON-SENSE BIOLOGICAL TRAINING ON SOCIAL WORK — ANTHROPOLOGY A BRANCH OF BIOLOGY — WOMAN’S SYNTHETIC POWERS AS AN INSTRUMENT TO EFFICIENCY — FOOTNOTES:
- 6.SCIENCE IN THE HOUSEHOLD By Mrs. W. N. SHAW — THE AIM AND METHODS OF MODERN EDUCATION — THE VALUE OF A SCIENTIFIC TRAINING — PHYSICAL SCIENCE IN THE HOUSEHOLD — EFFECTS OF CHANGES OF TEMPERATURE ON AIR — EFFECT OF CHANGES OF TEMPERATURE ON WATER — RADIANT HEAT — CONDUCTION OF HEAT — METHODS OF DOMESTIC HEATING — CHEMICAL SCIENCE IN THE HOUSEHOLD — THE CHEMISTRY OF THE BODY — CONCLUSION
- 7.THE ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF THE HOUSEHOLD By MABEL ATKINSON, M.A. (Glasgow) — I. INTRODUCTORY — II. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE POSITION OF THE HOUSEHOLD IN ENGLAND — ( a ) The Household in the Mediæval Period — ( b ) The Position of the Household from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries — III. THE PRESENT ORGANISATION OF THE HOUSEHOLD — ( a ) The Organisation of the Household as Affected by the Housing Question — ( b ) The Problems of Domestic Service — ( c ) A Discussion of Domestic Budgets — ( d ) Conclusion — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.SOME RELATIONS OF SANITARY SCIENCE TO FAMILY LIFE AND INDIVIDUAL EFFICIENCY By ALICE RAVENHILL — I. MAN’S PLACE IN NATURE — II. FACTORS ADVERSE TO HUMAN PROGRESS — III. STAGES IN THE GROWTH OF SANITARY SCIENCE — IV. WHY THE IDEALS OF MODERN HYGIENE ARE NOT ATTAINED — V. SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF MAN’S PHYSICAL NATURE — VI. THE ORIGIN OF FAMILY LIFE AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO SANITARY SCIENCE — VII. WOMAN’S VOCATION IN HOME AND FAMILY LIFE — VIII. THE FUNCTION OF THE FAMILY IN NATIONAL LIFE — IX. THE MEANING OF INFANCY — X. CAUSES WHICH MENACE HEALTHFUL INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD — XI. THE SOURCE OF THESE CAUSES TO BE FOUND IN FAULTY ADMINISTRATION OF THE HOME — XII. HARMONIES AND DISHARMONIES IN HUMAN LIFE — XIII. THE IMPORTANCE OF MENTAL HYGIENE IN FAMILY LIFE — XIV. WOMAN’S RESPONSIBILITIES FOR HOME ADMINISTRATION — XV. THE FUNCTIONS OF THE HOME — XVI. HOME LIFE AN IMPORTANT SPHERE FOR SANITARY SCIENCE — FOOTNOTES:
- 9.MODERN WOMAN AND THE DOMESTIC ARTS By Mrs. R. W. EDDISON Member, Education Committee, West Riding County Council, Etc. — I. NEEDLEWORK AND DRESSMAKING — INTRODUCTION — THE “PRINCIPLES” OF NEEDLEWORK — CONCLUSION — II. HOUSECRAFT
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