Keeping the Nation's House

Cover -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Ideology of the Happy Family, 1915-48 -- 2 Gendered Responsibilities: Debates over Female Education in the Republican Period -- 3 Domestic Discipline: The Development of Home Economics Curricula -- 4 A Discipline of Their Own: Home Economists in Institutions of Higher Learning -- 5 Experimenting with the Family: Family Education Experimental Zones in the 1940s -- 6 Cleaning House: The Last Decade of a Gendered Discipline -- 7 The Post-1949 Politics of Home Economics: Stories of Professional Evolution -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Glossary of Chinese Terms, Institutions, and Names -- Bibliography -- Index.