Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface 7
4. Introduction: Gender and Việt Nam Studies 13
5. Section I: Đối Mới and the State
6. Gender, Household, and State: Renovation (Đối Mới) as Social Process in Việt Nam 29
7. Gender Expectations of Vietnamese Garment Workers: Việt Nam's Re-integration into the World Economy 49
8. Section II: Household and Family
9. Village Households in the Red River Delta: The Case of Tả Thanh Oai, On the Outskirts of the Capital City, Hà Nội 73
10. Too Late to Marry: Failure, Fate or Fortune? Female Singlehood 89 in Rural North Việt Nam 89
11. Section III: Intimacy
12. The Irony of Sexual Agency: Premarital Sex in Urban Northern Việt Nam 111
13. Governing Sex: Medicine and Governmental Intervention in Prostitution 129
14. List of Contributors 153