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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Household management"”.
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Elite women's household management: Yorkshire, 1680-1810
… a female readership. Hence, the permanence of household management as a theme in this literary tradition is explored as well as its gendered dimensions and categorised responsibilities as perceived by other conduct authors of similar or contrasting social status to that of Carlisle. Following …
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“Making ends meet”: Working-class women’s strategies against poverty in West Oxfordshire, c. 1850 – 1900
… main strategies were considered; employment, household management and community strategies. General results of the analysis suggest that the strategic approach is a valuable method of examining the way poor rural women coped with poverty, highlighting the interconnections between their roles …
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Constructing Home Economics in Imperial Japan
… attempt to advance women's self-sufficiency in household management. She believed that the individual household was a fundamental unit of state and essential to national economic development. Accordingly, she sought to mobilize women for serving the state through self-sufficient household …
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Occupational Responses of Older Adults Following Partner Loss
… activities of daily living, financial and household management, meal preparation, and leisure. Intrinsic responses were identified as autonomy, intrapersonal transition, and filling in time. Occupational and intrinsic responses occur transactionally and influence each other. Older adults …
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Bourgeois heroics: Commercial anxieties and the rise of the mercantile hero in the early modern period
… characterized by responsible economic policy and household management. This cultural shift, I contend, reflects the demands of a bourgeois identity deeply invested in commercial success. My research delves into Tudor economic, religious, and political documents to uncover the ways in which …
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Nurturing transitions: Housewife organizations in (colonial) Indonesia, 1900-1972
… in the Netherlands Indies through teaching women household management skills including proper sanitation, hygiene, and food preservation methods. Through educational and social welfare initiatives, Dutch housewives maintained the Netherlands' control over the territory while promoting Dutch …
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Women, Nature and Labor on Long Island: A Gendered-Environmental Perspective to Colonial Encounters
… their gendered-environmental roles to excel in household management, ensuring their home economy was productive, their families never idle, their animals and farms fruitful. Women who administered a self-sufficient household could navigate their patriarchal society with significant agency. A …
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Waste Not: Criminalizing Wastefulness in Early Modern Germany
… town families struggled to preserve family and household resources. Using local, state, and imperial court trials of “spendthrifts” from early modern Württemberg, the thesis shows that prodigality laws provided litigants with a flexible, multifaceted tool to prevent reckless financial …
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Incentives and Forest Reform: Evidence from China
… whether and how the devolution of forestland to households in China triggered investment in forestland, and its effect on forest resource conditions. The investment analysis is based on a panel dataset of a two-round survey of 3,000 households in eight provinces before and after the …
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Feeding children : mother's feeding decisions and the diets of their children from birth to two years : a thesis presented in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Food Technology, Massey University
… also considered other aspects of child care and household management. The women's focus of concern changed in response to the immediate situation and broader contextual factors. They were actively learning about their child and applied the information they received from many sources to their own …
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The Material Culture of the Household: Consumption and Domestic Economy in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Research into the material culture of the household and the domestic interior has increased rapidly during recent years. It has primarily focused on the appearance and use of domestic space leaving household management and maintenance a neglected area of study. Furthermore the relationship between …
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Validation of a test assessing functional capacity in stroke survivors: UCSD performance-based skills assessment (UPSA)
… and EFPT Telephone scores, and UPSA Household Management and EFPT Simple Cooking scores. However, no significant correlation was found between the UPSA Finance and the EFPT Bill Payment scores. Additionally, stroke survivors' Social Participation was significantly predicted by UPSA …
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An anthropological exploration of the effects of family cash transfers on the diets of mothers and children in the Brazilian Amazon
… of the Brazilian population. The program targets households in extreme poverty through direct cash transfers from the federal government. Essentially, debit cards are issued, preferably to mothers in a household, and monthly cash transfers are made on the condition that their children meet …
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Energy Requirements and Expenditure, Economics, and Health
… form of physical activity energy expenditure: household management. The fourth and final manuscript is an economic analysis of the Lifestyle Education for Activity and Nutrition (LEAN) Study, a randomized control trial (RCT) of traditional and non-traditional (i.e., technology-based) behavioral …
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A Domesticated Idea: British Women Writers and the Victorian Recipe, 1845-1910
… recipes to discuss food preparation, dining, and household management, I argue that British women writers participated in a collaborative tradition, borrowing and sharing knowledge, imagining communities, and generating large bodies of women’s work. Specifically, this dissertation investigates the …
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The characterization of the Christ as ideal king in Ephesians.
… reason and virtue. The casting of traditional household management codes into the realm of the Christ's authority (5:22-6:9) reflects the belief that the reign of the ideal king ensures the stability of the social order. Above all, the reconciliation of Jews and Gentiles within the Christian …
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Musculoskeletal pain rehabilitation A one-year follow-up of occupational performance, psychosocial functioning and disability
… subcategory of occupations to be improved on was household management (Paper II). The most frequently reported occupations were reported as: working, sitting and cleaning the house. Occupational performance and satisfaction with performance improved significantly at discharge and at the follow-up …