Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace 9780824847869
“My husband doesn’t have a head for business,” complained Ngoc, the owner of a children’s clothing stall in Ben Thanh ma
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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Trading Essentialism under Market Socialism
1. Placing Bến Thành Market: The Naturalization of Space and Commerce
2. Marketing Femininity: Gender Essentialism in Traders’ Daily Lives
3. Relative Matters: Family Values and Kinship Relations in Market Stalls
4. Inside and Outside: Sociofiscal Relationships and the Risks of Doing Business
5. Wandering Ghosts of Market Socialism: Governmentality and Memory in the Marketplace
6. Superstitious Values and Religious Subjectivity: Stallholders’ Spiritual Beliefs and Practices
7. Producing Down and Consuming Up: Middle Classmaking under (Market) Socialism
Epilogue: “If You Haven’t Been to Bến Thành Market, You Haven’t Been to Vietnam”
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
Other Volumes in the Series
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Trading Essentialism under Market Socialism
1. Placing Bến Thành Market: The Naturalization of Space and Commerce
2. Marketing Femininity: Gender Essentialism in Traders’ Daily Lives
3. Relative Matters: Family Values and Kinship Relations in Market Stalls
4. Inside and Outside: Sociofiscal Relationships and the Risks of Doing Business
5. Wandering Ghosts of Market Socialism: Governmentality and Memory in the Marketplace
6. Superstitious Values and Religious Subjectivity: Stallholders’ Spiritual Beliefs and Practices
7. Producing Down and Consuming Up: Middle Classmaking under (Market) Socialism
Epilogue: “If You Haven’t Been to Bến Thành Market, You Haven’t Been to Vietnam”
Notes
References
Index
About the Author
Other Volumes in the Series
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- Ann Marie Leshkowich (editor)
- David P. Chandler (editor)
- Rita Smith Kipp (editor)
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