Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778 9780824874902
Familial Properties is the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Author Nh
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Table of contents :
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 Possibilities
Notes
Glossary of Terms in Sino-Vietnamese and in the Demotic Script
Bibliography
Index
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 Possibilities
Notes
Glossary of Terms in Sino-Vietnamese and in the Demotic Script
Bibliography
Index
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