SOC359H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: The Filthy Animals, Syphilis, Racial Hygiene
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(cid:862) clea(cid:374)si(cid:374)g motherhood: h(cid:455)gie(cid:374)e a(cid:374)d the (cid:272)ulture of do(cid:373)esti(cid:272)it(cid:455) i(cid:374) a(cid:374) fra(cid:374)(cid:272)is(cid:272)o(cid:859)s. For chinese immigrants, the achievement of american cultural citizenship rested on proof that chinese women were engaged in respectable domesticity and motherhood. In the nineteenth century, chinese women were perceived as either mercenary prostitutes infecting white boys with syphilis or as sequestered and uneducated merchant wives unable to further the progress of their families. This essay assesses how white women responded to debated about the social conduct and domestic habits of chinese women and contributed visions of hygienic home life in the late nineteenth century. White middle-class household culture was seen as being in opposition to perceptions of unreformed. Medical concepts of health and cleanliness became increasingly important in defining the norm of. Modern health society was conceptualized as a series of bourgeois families which perpetuated the race and enriched the nation.
