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Holt, Marilyn Irvin – 1995
This book focuses on the domestic economy movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which intended to transform agrarian society and improve rural life through the education of rural women. The movement considered women to be partners in business with their farmer husbands and pursued the goal of making rural women more able managers and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Health, Child Rearing, Educational History
