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Essential Trade : Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace /
"My husband doesn't have a head for business," complained Ngoc, the owner of a children's clothing stall in Ben Thanh market. "Naturally, it's because he's a man." When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City's iconic marketplace speak, their language sugg...
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2014]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Essential Trade : |b Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace / |c Ann Marie Leshkowich ; Rita Smith Kipp, David P. Chandler. |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Introduction: Trading Essentialism under Market Socialism -- |t 1. Placing Bến Thành Market: The Naturalization of Space and Commerce -- |t 2. Marketing Femininity: Gender Essentialism in Traders' Daily Lives -- |t 3. Relative Matters: Family Values and Kinship Relations in Market Stalls -- |t 4. Inside and Outside: Sociofiscal Relationships and the Risks of Doing Business -- |t 5. Wandering Ghosts of Market Socialism: Governmentality and Memory in the Marketplace -- |t 6. Superstitious Values and Religious Subjectivity: Stallholders' Spiritual Beliefs and Practices -- |t 7. Producing Down and Consuming Up: Middle Classmaking under (Market) Socialism -- |t Epilogue: "If You Haven't Been to Bến Thành Market, You Haven't Been to Vietnam" -- |t Notes -- |t References -- |t Index -- |t About the Author -- |t Other Volumes in the Series |
| 520 | |a "My husband doesn't have a head for business," complained Ngoc, the owner of a children's clothing stall in Ben Thanh market. "Naturally, it's because he's a man." When the women who sell in Ho Chi Minh City's iconic marketplace speak, their language suggests that activity in the market is shaped by timeless, essential truths: Vietnamese women are naturally adept at buying and selling, while men are not; Vietnamese prefer to do business with family members or through social contacts; stallholders are by nature superstitious; marketplace trading is by definition a small-scale enterprise. Essential Trade looks through the façade of these "timeless truths" and finds active participants in a political economy of appearances: traders' words and actions conform to stereotypes of themselves as poor, weak women in order to clinch sales, manage creditors, and protect themselves from accusations of being greedy, corrupt, or "bourgeois"--Even as they quietly slip into southern Vietnam's growing middle class. But Leshkowich argues that we should not dismiss the traders' self-disparaging words simply because of their essentialist logic. In Ben Thanh market, performing certain styles of femininity, kinship relations, social networks, spirituality, and class allowed traders to portray themselves as particular kinds of people who had the capacity to act in volatile political and economic circumstances. When so much seems to be changing, a claim that certain things or people are inherently or naturally a particular way can be both personally meaningful and strategically advantageous. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and life history interviewing conducted over nearly two decades, Essential Trade explores how women cloth and clothing traders like Ngoc have plied their wares through four decades of political and economic transformation: civil war, postwar economic restructuring, socialist cooperativization, and the frenetic competition of market socialism. With close attention to daily activities and life narratives, this groundbreaking work of critical feminist economic anthropology combines theoretical insight, vivid ethnography, and moving personal stories to illuminate how the interaction between gender and class has shaped people's lives and created market socialist political economy. It provides a compelling account of postwar southern Vietnam as seen through the eyes of the dynamic women who have navigated forty years of profound change while building their businesses in the stalls of Ben Thanh market | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 610 | 2 | 0 | |a Chợ Bên Thành (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam) |
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| 650 | 7 | |a Sex role in the work environment. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01114655 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Clothing trade. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst00864754 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS |x International |x Economics. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Rôle selon le sexe en milieu de travail |z Viêt-nam |z Hô Chi Minh-Ville. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Commerçantes |z Viêt-nam |z Hô Chi Minh-Ville. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sex role in the work environment |z Vietnam |z Ho Chi Minh City. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Clothing trade |z Vietnam |z Ho Chi Minh City. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women merchants |z Vietnam |z Ho Chi Minh City. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Vietnam |z Ho Chi Minh City. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01221529 | |
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| 700 | 1 | |a Kipp, Rita Smith, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Chandler, David P., |e editor. | |
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