Weaving Women's Spheres in Vietnam : The Agency of Women in Family, Religion and Community.

Intro -- Weaving Women's Spheres in Vietnam: The Agency of Women in Family, Religion, and Community -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Weaving Women's Spheres in Vietnam: An Introduction -- PART 1: Gendered Structure and Reframing It from within -- 1: Gender Relations in Vietnam: Ideologies, Kinship Practices, and Political Economy -- 2: Rethinking Vietnamese Women's Property Rights and the Role of Ancestor Worship in Premodern Society: Beyond the Dichotomies -- 3: Divorce Prevalence under the Forces of Individualism and Collectivism in "Shortcut" Modernity in Vietnam -- 4: Negotiating with Multilayered Public Norms: Female University Students' Struggle to Survive the Đổi Mới Period -- PART 2: Transgressing Boundaries, Weaving Alternatives, and Putting Down New Roots -- 5: The Limit of Chia Sẻ (Compassion): Interpretative Conflicts in the Collectivity of the Vietnamese Women's Union -- 6: Living in Intimacy: A Case Study of Women's Community at a Caodaist Temple in Hanoi -- 7: Imperious Mandarins and Cunning Princesses: Mediumship, Gender, and Identity in Urban Vietnam -- 8: The Blessed Virgin Mary Wears Áo Dài: Marianism in the Transnational Public Sphere between Vietnamese Catholics in the u.s. and Vietnam -- Index.

Weaving Women's Spheres in Vietnam examines the changing status of womanhood in 'traditional', transitional and contemporary Vietnam from anthropological, historical, and sociological perspectives, focusing particularly on women's active agency in negotiating their own roles in family, religion and community.

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