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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...

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Autor principal: Schneider, Helen M.
Autor Corporativo: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Department of History
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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>
Notas:"Published with the assistance of the Virginia Tech Department of History"--Title page verso
Descripción Física:1 online resource (336 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780774819992
ISSN:1206-9523