1. Chapter III: Through a literacy lens: Feminist and critical perspectives on mothering and literacy
    1. Child-raising advice to mothers: insights into mothering discourses
    2. The feminization of literacy: mothering, schooling, and pedagogy
      1. Mothers and schools
      2. Literacy in women’s lives: social practice perspectives
    3. Towards a discursive framework for analyzing literacy advice to mothers
      1. Intensive mothering
      2. Domestic pedagogy
      3. The normal family
      4. Table 2. A Discursive Framework for the Analysis of Literacy Advice
    4. Conclusion
  2. Chapter IV: Mothering discourses in literacy advice to Victorian and Edwardian mothers
    1. Table 3: Discourses and Themes in Literacy Advice to Victorian and Edwardian Mothers
    2. Part One: Literacy advice to early Victorian mothers
      1. Mothers as domestic literacy managers in the early to middle Nineteenth Century
      2. The moral structuring of literacy: Teaching children to read and write
    3. Part Two: The angel in the house and school: New domestic literacy roles for mothers
      1. Domestic literacy management in the middle to late Nineteenth Century
      2. The moral structuring of literacy: Advice for teaching children to read in the late Nineteenth Century
      3. Dangerous practices: Women’s and children’s literacy in the later Nineteenth Century
    4. Conclusions: literacy advice and mothering discourses in nineteenth-century advice texts
  3. Chapter V: Why can’t Johnny read?
    1. Table 4: Discourses and Themes in Literacy Advice to Mothers, 1945–1968
    2. Domestic literacy management 1929 to 1945
    3. Domestic literacy management in the 1950s and 1960s
      1. Preserving a “reading culture”
      2. Parental involvement in schools
    4. Teaching children to read
      1. Regulating mothers’ and children’s literacy practices
    5. Conclusion