title: Recipes for Men: Manufacturing Makeup and the Politics of Production in 1910s China.
abstract: In the first decade of Republican China (1911-49), masculinity was explored in writings on how to manufacture makeup that appeared in women's magazines. Male authors and editors of these writings--some of whom were connoisseurs of technology, some of whom were would-be manufacturers--appropriated the tropes of the domestic and feminine to elevate hands-on work and explore industry and manufacturing as legitimate masculine pursuits. Tapping into time-honored discourses of virtuous productivity in the inner chambers and employing practices of appropriating the woman's voice to promote unorthodox sentiment, these recipes "feminized" production to valorize a new masculine agenda, which included chemistry and manufacturing, for building a new China.
authors.forename: Eugenia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lean
mesh_terms: D002621:Chemistry / Q000266:history; D002681:China; D003358:Cosmetics / Q000737:chemistry / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D066192:Manufacturing Industry / Q000266:history*; D057228:Masculinity / Q000266:history*; D008571:Men / Q000523:psychology*; D014937:Work / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology
chemical_list: D003358:Cosmetics