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Author Pettus, Ashley.

Title Between sacrifice and desire : national identity and the governing of femininity in Vietnam / Ashley Pettus.

Publication Info. New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 244 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series East Asia history, politics, sociology, and culture
East Asia (New York, N.Y.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index.
Contents Book Cover; Title; Contents; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction Nationalism, Women and Modernity in Vietnam; MEDIA AND GOVERNMENTALITY; Defining the "New Vietnamese Woman": National Femininity and the Struggle for Socialist Modernity; Building Civility through Happy Families: The Women's Union in a New Era; Governmental Entertainment: The Popular Press and the Policing of Femininity; MEDIATED SUBJECTS AND IDENTITY STRUGGLE; Preface to Part Two; On the Uncivil Margins: Feminine Tradition and Economic Aspiration in Phuong Lien.
Summary Drawing on extensive and diverse primary resources, this title explores the role of women in the politics of national identity in Vietnam.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Women -- Vietnam -- Conduct of life.
Women.
Vietnam.
Conduct of life.
Femininity -- Vietnam.
Femininity.
Women -- Vietnam -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Women.
Womyn.
Other Form: Print version: Pettus, Ashley. Between sacrifice and desire. New York : Routledge, 2003 0415944317 (DLC) 2002036623 (OCoLC)50809091
ISBN 0203491300 (electronic book)
9780203491300 (electronic book)
0415944317 (Cloth)