Essential trade : Vietnamese women in a changing marketplace / Ann Marie Leshkowich
Imprint
Honolulu : 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
Cḥơ B́ên Thành (Ho Chi Minh City
Vietnam)
Women merchants -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City
Clothing trade -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City
Sex role in the work environment -- Vietnam -- Ho Chi Minh City