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Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnam
ISBN: 9780804760584 | 0804760586
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Stanford Univ Pr
Pub. Date: 3/18/2009
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This original collection of chapters provides unique and fresh insight into Vietnamese contemporary society through the family and gender lenses. Volume editors Magali Barbieri and Daniele Belanger bring together the perspectives of Vietnam experts from various disciplines to examine the significance and impact of the transition from a socialist to a market economy-known as Doi Moi or "the renovation"-for Vietnamese families.
Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnamchronicles and analyzes the most significant... MORE
Reconfiguring Families in Contemporary Vietnamchronicles and analyzes the most significant... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. ix |
| Contributors | p. xi |
| Introduction: State, Families, and the Making of Transitions in Vietnam | p. 1 |
| A New Social Contract | |
| State and the Family: Reproductive Policies and Practices | p. 47 |
| Health Care and the Family in Vietnam | p. 75 |
| The Redeployment of Family Solidarities | |
| The Family: A Cornerstone in the Current Fight Against HIV/AIDS | ... MORE |
| Doi Moi and Older Adults: Intergenerational Support Under the Constraints of Reform | p. 133 |
| Marriage and the Transition to Adulthood | |
| From Youth to Adulthood: Benchmarks and Pathways in Modern Vietnam | p. 169 |
| Family Change in Vietnam's Red River Delta: From War, to Reunification, to Renovation | p. 203 |
| The Legacy of Doi Moi, the Legacy of Immigration: Overseas Vietnamese Grooms Come Home to Vietnam | p. 237 |
| Gender and The Family | |
| Daughters, Work, and Families in Globalizing Vietnam | p. 265 |
| A Home Divided: Work, Body, and Emotions in the Post-Doi Moi Family | p. 298 |
| Household Headship in the Red River Delta, Vietnam: The Political Construction of the Family | p. 329 |
| Family Livelihood Strategies | |
| Household Structure and Employment Strategies in a Changing Economy | p. 365 |
| Rural-to-Urban Migration in Vietnam: A Tale of Three Regions | p. 391 |
| Afterword | p. 421 |
| Index | p. 429 |
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Magali Barbieri is a researcher for the Institut National d'Études Démographiques in Paris, and is the head of its Population and Development Division. Danièle Bélanger is the Canada Research Chair in Population, Gender and Development, and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario.
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