AuthorLeshkowich, Ann Marie, author
TitleEssential trade : Vietnamese women in a changing marketplace / Ann Marie Leshkowich
ImprintHonolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2014]
Descript xi, 251 pages ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Placing B̂én Thành Market: the naturalization of space and commerce -- Marketing femininity: gender essentialism in traders' daily lives -- Relative matters: family values and kinship relations in market stalls -- Inside and outside: sociofiscal relationships and the risks of doing business -- Wandering ghosts of market socialism: governmentality and memory in the marketplace -- Superstitious values and religious subjectivity: stallholders' spiritual beliefs and practices -- Producing down and consuming up: middle classmaking under (market) socialism


SUBJECT

  1. Cḥơ B́ên Thành (Ho Chi Minh City
  2. Vietnam)
  3. Women merchants -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City
  4. Clothing trade -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City
  5. Sex role in the work environment -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City

LOCATIONCALL#STATUS
Arts Library : ASEAN CollectionAS HD6072.6.V52 L629E 2014 CHECK SHELVES