essay
'Faithful, heroic, resourceful': changing images of women in Vietnam
Vietnamese society in transition : the daily politics of reform and change • Amsterdam • Published In 2001 • Pages: 265-280
By: Gammeltoft, Tine.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay explores continueties abnd changes in the was female subjectivity is defined in state discourses in socialist former North Vietnam. It also discusses the effects of this discourse on women's health and social status. In doing so, the author argues that women's everyday talk about health problems and physical weakness may be considered not only as passive suggering but also as active performance.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Drives and emotions
- Morbidity
- Population policy
- Labor and leisure
- Division of labor by gender
- Occupational specialization
- Personal hygiene
- Gender status
- Household
- Family relationships
- Political parties
- Political movements
- Ethnoanatomy
- Ethnosociology
- Menstruation
- Conception
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Vietnamese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi A. Adem ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1992-1994,1996 and 1997
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1977-1997
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- Tine Gammeltoft
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-280)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2001460704
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese