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Keeping the nation's house : domestic management and the making of modern China /
The term home economics often conjures images of girls learning to cook dinner and swaddle dolls in sterile classrooms far removed from the seats of power. Helen Schneider unsettles this assumption by revealing how Chinese women helped to build a nation one family at a time. From the 1920s to the ea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Vancouver :
UBC Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Contemporary Chinese studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The term home economics often conjures images of girls learning to cook dinner and swaddle dolls in sterile classrooms far removed from the seats of power. Helen Schneider unsettles this assumption by revealing how Chinese women helped to build a nation one family at a time. From the 1920s to the early 1950s, home economists transformed the most fundamental of political spaces - the home - by teaching women to nurture ideal families and manage projects of social reform. Although their discipline came undone after 1949, its legacies of gendered professions and leaders' attempts to shape the domestic rituals of the people lived on. </body> </html> |
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| Notas: | "Published with the assistance of the Virginia Tech Department of History"--Title page verso |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 321 pages) : illustrations, map |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-307) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780774819992 0774819995 9780774819985 0774819987 1283054388 9781283054386 9786613054388 6613054380 |
| ISSN: | 1206-9523 |