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Author MacDonald, Cheryl, 1952-2016.

Title Adelaide Hoodless : domestic crusader / Cheryl MacDonald.

Publication Info. Toronto [Ont.] : Dundurn Press, 1986.

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Description 1 online resource (183 pages) : illustrations, portraits.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Dundurn lives
Dundurn lives.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-181) and index.
Contents Foreword; 1. A Young Victorian Matron; 2. Early Work with the YWCA; 3. Council of Women; 4. Cooking classes at the YWCA; 5. A School of Domestic Science; 6. A Controversial Crusade; 7. The Campaign Heats Up; 8. Two New Organizations; 9. The Little Red Book; 10. Conquest by Charm; 11. A Trip to England; 12. A School for Domestic Science Teachers; 13. An Ambitious Project; 14. More Victories; 15. Trials and Tantrums; 16. Macdonald Institute; 17. Trade School Advisor; 18. "The Gratitude of the Citizens"; Epilogue; Chronology; Notes; Bibliography; Illustration and Photograph Credits.
Summary 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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Subject Hoodless, Adelaide, 1857-1910.
Hoodless, Adelaide, 1857-1910.
Hoodless, Adelaide, 1857-1910.
Hoodless, Adelaide, 1857-1910.
Home economists -- Canada -- Biography.
Home economists.
Canada.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Women social reformers -- Canada -- Biography.
Women social reformers.
Women -- Canada -- Societies and clubs -- History.
Women.
History.
Home economics -- Study and teaching -- Canada -- History.
Home economics -- Study and teaching.
Women -- Canada -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: MacDonald, Cheryl, 1952- Adelaide Hoodless. Toronto [Ont.] : Dundurn Press, 1986 (DLC) 88161982
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