Keeping the nation's house : domestic management and the making of modern China
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Keeping the nation's house : domestic management and the making of modern China
（Contemporary Chinese studies）
UBC Press, c2011
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-307) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The term home economics often conjures images of sterileclassrooms where girls learn to cook dinner and swaddle dolls, farremoved from the seats of power. Helen Schneider unsettles thisassumption by revealing how Chinese women helped to build a nation, onefamily at a time. From the 1920s to the early 1950s, home economiststransformed the most fundamental of political spaces - thehome - by teaching women to nurture ideal families andmanage projects of social reform. Although their discipline came undoneafter 1949, it created a legacy of gendered professionalism andreinforced the idea that leaders should shape domestic rituals of thepeople.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1 The Ideology of the Happy Family, 1915-48
2 Gendered Responsibilities: Debates over FemaleEducation in the Republican Period
3 Domestic Discipline: The Development of Home EconomicsCurricula
4 A Discipline of Their Own: Home Economists inInstitutions of Higher Learning
5 Experimenting with the Family: Family EducationExperimental Zones in the 1940s
6 Cleaning House: The Last Decade of a GenderedDiscipline
7 The Post-1949 Politics of Home Economics: Stories ofProfessional Evolution
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary of Chinese Terms, Institutions, and Names
Bibliography
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"
