This study begins from the concept of self-guidance understood as a psychological model capable to guarantee the recognition and respect of the next one, a self-valorization. It propitiates a reflection regarding the woman in the performance of the paper of "queen of the home" in Brazil of the beginning of the XX century. In the preparation of the house rested the valuation of a controlled behavior of the housewife, that would have to keep the control on everything and all, having there the chance to demonstrate its capacity to govern itself, its home and its family.
Containment; Self-Guidance; Administration of the Home