About this book
Seeking to elevate the status of domestic work, Beecher and co-author Harriet Beecher Stowe redefine it as labor for which women must be educated. They also offer instruction in the specifics of maintaining a household.
- Home economics
- Housekeeping
- Family
- Social life and customs
- Home
- Women
- Huishoudkunde
- Vrouwen
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