Keeping the Nation's House : Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schneider, Helen M.
Corporate Author: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Department of History
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Vancouver : UBC Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Women > Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Sex role.
Home economics > Study and teaching.
Home economics.
Families > Political aspects.
HOUSE & HOME > Reference.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > General.
Familles > Aspect politique > Chine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Rôle selon le sexe > Chine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Chine > Conditions sociales > 20e siecle.
Femmes > Éducation > Femmes > Chine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Économie domestique > Étude et enseignement > Chine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Économie domestique > Chine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Families > Political aspects > China > History > 20th century.
Sex role > China > History > 20th century.
Women > China > Social conditions > 20th century.
Women > Education > Women > China > History > 20th century.
Home economics > Study and teaching > China > History > 20th century.
Home economics > China > History > 20th century.
China.
Chine > Conditions sociales > 1949-1976.
Chine > Conditions sociales > 1912-1949.
China > Social conditions > 1949-1976.
China > Social conditions > 1912-1949.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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 1940s
  • Cleaning house : the last decade of a gendered discipline
  • The post-1949 politics of home economics : stories of professional evolution
  • Conclusion.

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