Gender, Household and State in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam

Informationen zum Autor Jayne Werner is based at Long Island University! where she is Professor Emerita of Political Science!and she is also a Research Scholar in the Southern Asian Institute at Columbia University! USA. She has written extensively on gender relations and Vietnam! and her books include The Vietnam War: Vietnamese and American Perspectives (edited with Luu Doan Huynh)! and Sources of Vietnamese Tradition (edited with John Whitmore and George Dutton! forthcoming). Zusammenfassung Examining gender in post-revolutionary Vietnam, focusing in particular on gender relations in both the family and state since the onset of economic reform in 1986, this book argues that, as in the socialist era, current gender relations bear the imprint of state gender policies and discourses. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Revolutionary Discourses! the Resistance Wars! and Gender Politics in Quang Xa! 1945-1975 2. Gender and Doi Moi in Quang Xa 3. State Discourses and the Family Household 4. Married Couples and Equality Families in Quang Xa 5. Womanhoods and State Subject making in Quang Xa 6. Conclusion

Product details

• Authors: Werner Jayne, Jayne Werner, Jayne (Columbia University Werner, Jayne Werner
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 30.06.2010
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)
• EAN: 9780415590198
• ISBN: 978-0-415-59019-8
• Pages: 208
• Series: ASAA Women in Asia Series; ASAA Women in Asia Series
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, Cultural Studies, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Anthropology, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Regional Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General