Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463-1778
(Part of the Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory Series)
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Familial Properties is the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Author Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based on primogeniture, some women were able to manipulate the system to their own advantage. Women succeeded in taking pragmatic advantage of socioeconomic turmoil during a time of war and chaos to acquire wealth and, to some extent, control...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0824884361
ISBN13:9780824884369
Release Date:April 2020
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:280 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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