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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807204203321

Autore

Schneider Helen M

Titolo

Keeping the nation's house : domestic management and the making of modern China / / Helen M. Schneider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Vancouver, : UBC Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-05438-8

9786613054388

0-7748-1999-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Chinese studies series, , 1206-9523/1925-0177

Disciplina

640/.9510904

Soggetti

Home economics - China - History - 20th century

Home economics - Study and teaching - China - History - 20th century

Women - Education - China - History - 20th century

Families - Political aspects - China - History - 20th century

Women - China - Social conditions - 20th century

Sex role - China - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published with the assistance of the Virginia Tech Department of History"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 1940's -- Cleaning house : the last decade of a gendered discipline -- The post-1949 politics of home economics : stories of professional evolution -- Conclusion.