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Keeping the nation's house : domestic management and the making of modern China / Helen M. Schneider.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schneider, Helen M.
- Series:
- Contemporary Chinese studies.
- Contemporary Chinese studies series, 1206-9523/1925-0177
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Home economics--China--History--20th century.
- Home economics.
- Home economics--Study and teaching--China--History--20th century.
- Women--Education--China--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Families--Political aspects--China--History--20th century.
- Families.
- Women--China--Social conditions--20th century.
- Sex role--China--History--20th century.
- Sex role.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Explores the vision and aspirations of elite Chinese women ? home economists ? who believed that the birth of modern China should begin in the home.
- Contents:
- The ideology of the Happy Family, 1915-48
- Gendered responsibilities : debates over femail education in the Republican Period
- Domestic discipline : the development of home economics curricula
- A discipline of their own : home economists in institutions of higher learning
- Experimenting with the family : family education experimental zones in the 1940's
- Cleaning house : the last decade of a gendered discipline
- The post-1949 politics of home economics : stories of professional evolution
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- "Published with the assistance of the Virginia Tech Department of History"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-05438-8
- 9786613054388
- 0-7748-1999-5
- OCLC:
- 758507055
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