Weaving women's spheres in Vietnam : the agency of women in family, religion, and community

Preface ... vii List of Figures ... x List of Tables ... xii List of Contributors ... xiii Weaving Women's Spheres in Vietnam: An Introduction ... 1 Kato Atsufumi PART 1 Gendered Structure and Reframing It from within 1 Gender Relations in Vietnam: Ideologies, Kinship Practices, and Political Economy ... 25 Hy V. Luong 2 Rethinking Vietnamese Women's Property Rights and the Role of Ancestor Worship in Premodern Society: Beyond the Dichotomies ... 57 Miyazawa Chihiro 3 Divorce Prevalence under the Forces of Individualism and Collectivism in Shortcut Modernity in Vietnam ... 81 Tran Thi Minh Thi 4 Negotiating with Multilayered Public Norms: Female University Students' Struggle to Survive the Doi Moi Period ... 116 Ito Miho PART 2 Transgressing Boundaries, Weaving Alternatives, and Putting Down New Roots 5 The Limit of Chia Se (Compassion): Interpretative Conflicts in the Collectivity of the Vietnamese Women's Union ... 141 Kato Atsufumi 6 Living in Intimacy: A Case Study of Women's Community at a Caodaist Temple in Hanoi ... 166 Ito Mariko 7 Imperious Mandarins and Cunning Princesses: Mediumship, Gender, and Identity in Urban Vietnam ... 193 Kirsten W. Endres 8 The Blessed Virgin Mary Wears Ao Dai: Marianism in the Transnational Public Sphere between Vietnamese Catholics in the u.s. and Vietnam ... 218 Thien-Huong T. Ninh Index ... 233