Nhung Tuyet Tran Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463-1778 9780824874827

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Автор: Nhung Tuyet Tran
Название: Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463-1778
ISBN: 9780824874827
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История Азии

Гендерные исследования, гендерные группы

Гендерные исследования: женщины

ISBN-10: 082487482X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 280
Вес: 0.56 кг.
Дата издания: 30.05.2018
Серия: Southeast asia: politics, meaning, and memory
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 1 black & white illustration, 1 map
Размер: 231 x 155 x 25
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Asian history,Gender studies, gender groups,Gender studies: women, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Подзаголовок: Gender, state, and society in early modern vietnam, 1463-1778
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: 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 what happened to their property.Drawing from legal, literary, and religious sources written in the demotic script, classical Chinese, and European languages, Tran argues that beginning in the fifteenth century, state and local communities produced laws and morality codes limiting women’s participation in social life. Then in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, economic and political turmoil led the three competing states—the Mac, Trinh, and Nguyen—to increase their military service demands, producing labor shortages in the fields and markets of the countryside. Women filled the vacuum left by their brothers, husbands, and fathers, and as they worked the lands and tended the markets, they accumulated monetary capital. To protect that capital, they circumvented local practice and state law guaranteeing patrilineal inheritance rights by soliciting the cooperation of male leaders. In exchange for monetary and landed donations to the local community, these women were elected to become spiritual patrons of the community whose souls would be forever preserved by collective offering. By tracing how the women, local leaders, and court elites negotiated gender models to demarcate their authority, Tran demonstrates that despite the Confucian ethos of the times, survival strategies were able to subvert gender norms and create new cultural models. Gender, thus, as a signifier of power relations, was central to the relationship between state and local communities in early modern Vietnam. Rich and detailed in its use of documentary evidence from a range of archives, this work will be of great interest to scholars of Southeast Asian history and the comparative study of gender.

Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463-1778, Nhung Tuyet Tran