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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
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:Contemporary Chinese studies.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 1940s
  • Cleaning house : the last decade of a gendered discipline
  • The post-1949 politics of home economics : stories of professional evolution
  • Conclusion.