Familial Properties : : Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463-1778 / / Nhung Tuyet Tran; ed. by David P. Chandler, Rita Smith Kipp.
Familial Properties is the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Author Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based on primogeniture, some women were able to manipulate the system to their own advantage...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) :; 1 b&w illustration, 1 map |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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