Adelaide Hoodless

by Cheryl MacDonald

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155002017X
• ISBN13: 9781550020175
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Dundurn Group
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"