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August 14, 2026Urban HistoryOpen Access

The Modern Woman and the household: hygiene, urban education and the YWCA in Hong Kong, 1921–41

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Historical analysis reveals how domestic hygiene education shaped modern femininity in interwar households, highlighting the role of civic organizations in urban sanitary reform.

Key Points

  • To examine how colonial education and women's civic organizations constructed the modern woman through domestic hygiene education and urban sanitation initiatives between 1921 and 1941.
  • Analyzed historical archives documenting colonial education policy and Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association (HKYWCA) programs from 1921 to 1941.
  • Evaluated the domestic health strategies and sanitary interventions implemented across middle- and working-class Chinese households by Western-trained medical experts.
  • Urban sanitary reform required systematic changes to daily household routines and hygiene behaviors among Chinese families.
  • The cultural emergence of the modern Chinese woman was fundamentally linked to domestic health training and urban space modernization led by sanitary professionals.

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Stella Meng Wang (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7ec71db70b84ec8b9133c5https://doi.org/10.1017/s0963926826101023
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