Weaving women's spheres in Vietnam : the agency of women in family, religion, and community
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Weaving women's spheres in Vietnam : the agency of women in family, religion, and community
（The intimate and the public in Asian and global perspectives / edited by Ochiai Emiko, v. 9）
Brill, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Weaving Women's Spheres in Vietnam offers an in-depth study of the status of women in Vietnamese society through an examination of their roles in the context of family, religious and local community life from anthropological, historical and sociological perspectives. Unlike previous works on gender issues relating to Vietnam which focus on women as passive subjects and are restricted to specific spheres such as family, this book, through a series of case studies and life stories, not only examines the suppressive gender structure of the Vietnamese family, but also demonstrates Vietnamese women's agency in appropriating that structure and creating alternative spheres for women which they have interwoven in between the dominant realms of public and private spheres in the areas of family, religious practice, community organizations, and politics, including their participation in the (re)construction of national identity. Accordingly, this volume is expected to become an important new benchmark relating to gender issues in Asian societies, especially in the context of so-called 'transitional' societies, such as China and Vietnam.
Contributors include: Kirsten W. Endres, Ito Mariko, Ito Miho, Kato Atsufumi , Hy V. Luong, Miyazawa Chihiro, Thien-Huong T. Ninh, Tran Thi Minh Thi.
Table of Contents
Preface ... vii
List of Figures ... x
List of Tables ... xii
List of Contributors ... xiii
Weaving Women's Spheres in Vietnam: An Introduction ... 1
Kato Atsufumi
PART 1
Gendered Structure and Reframing It from within
1 Gender Relations in Vietnam: Ideologies, Kinship Practices, and Political Economy ... 25
Hy V. Luong
2 Rethinking Vietnamese Women's Property Rights and the Role of Ancestor Worship in Premodern Society: Beyond the Dichotomies ... 57
Miyazawa Chihiro
3 Divorce Prevalence under the Forces of Individualism and Collectivism in "Shortcut" Modernity in Vietnam ... 81
Tran Thi Minh Thi
4 Negotiating with Multilayered Public Norms: Female University Students' Struggle to Survive the Doi Moi Period ... 116
Ito Miho
PART 2
Transgressing Boundaries, Weaving Alternatives, and Putting Down New Roots
5 The Limit of Chia Se (Compassion): Interpretative Conflicts in the Collectivity of the Vietnamese Women's Union ... 141
Kato Atsufumi
6 Living in Intimacy: A Case Study of Women's Community at a Caodaist Temple in Hanoi ... 166
Ito Mariko
7 Imperious Mandarins and Cunning Princesses: Mediumship, Gender, and Identity in Urban Vietnam ... 193
Kirsten W. Endres
8 The Blessed Virgin Mary Wears Ao Dai: Marianism in the Transnational Public Sphere between Vietnamese Catholics in the u.s. and Vietnam ... 218
Thien-Huong T. Ninh
Index ... 233
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