Between Sacrifice and Desire: National Identity and the Governing of Femininity in Vietnam

ISBN-13: 9780415944311 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 256 str.

Ashley Pettus;Pettus Ashley

Opis

This title explores the role of women in the politics of national identity in Vietnam. Drawing on extensive and diverse primary resources - including state news media, government contests, tabloid journalism and extensive interviews - the author examines the intimate connection between notions of Vietnamese femininity and the cultural quandaries of modernity in post-colonial Vietnam. The book covers the socialist and market reform periods (from the 1950s through the 1990s) and examines women's central place - as both symbols and disciplined subjects - in Vietnam's socialist modernization and ongoing capitalist tradition.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part 1 Media and Governmentality; Chapter 1 Defining the “;New Vietnamese Woman”; Chapter 2 Building Civility through Happy Families; Chapter 3 Governmental Entertainment; Part 2 Mediated Subjects and Identity Struggle; Chapter 4 On the Uncivil Margins; Chapter 5 Market Morality; Chapter 6 Conclusion;

O autorze

Ashley Pettus