Familial properties : gender, state, and society in early modern Vietnam, 1463-1778 /
Familial Properties is the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Author Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based on primogeniture, some women were able to manipulate the system to their own advantage...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Conventions; Chronology; Introduction; Vietnamese Women at the Crossroads of Southeast Asia; 1; Articulating the Gender System; Economy, Society, and the State; 2; Dutiful Wives, Nurturing Mothers, and Filial Children; Marriage as Affairs of State, Village, and Family; 3; Female Bodies, Sexual Activity, and the Sociopolitical Order; 4; Inheritance, Succession, and Autonomy in the Property Regime; 5; Buying an Election; Preparing for the Afterlife; 6; Visions of the Future, Constructions of the Past; Paradigms of Vietnamese Womanhood; Conclusion.
- Structure, Limitations, and PossibilitiesNotes; Glossary of Terms in Sino-Vietnamese and in the Demotic Script; Bibliography; Index; About the Author; Blank Page.
