Essential Trade : : Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace /

Essential Trade : : Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace / / Ann Marie Leshkowich; ed. by Rita Smith Kipp, David P. Chandler.

"My husband doesn't have a head for business," complained Ngoc, the owner of a children's clothing stall in Ben Thanh market. "Naturally, it's because he's a man." When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City's iconic marketplace speak, their language sugg...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2014-2016
VerfasserIn:
Leshkowich, Ann Marie,
HerausgeberIn:
Chandler, David P.,
Kipp, Rita Smith,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.) :; 10 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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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