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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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Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Trading Essentialism under Market Socialism
- 1. Placing Bến Thành Market: The Naturalization of Space and Commerce
- 2. Marketing Femininity: Gender Essentialism in Traders' Daily Lives
- 3. Relative Matters: Family Values and Kinship Relations in Market Stalls
- 4. Inside and Outside: Sociofiscal Relationships and the Risks of Doing Business
- 5. Wandering Ghosts of Market Socialism: Governmentality and Memory in the Marketplace
- 6. Superstitious Values and Religious Subjectivity: Stallholders' Spiritual Beliefs and Practices
- 7. Producing Down and Consuming Up: Middle Classmaking under (Market) Socialism
- Epilogue: "If You Haven't Been to Bến Thành Market, You Haven't Been to Vietnam"
- Notes
- References
- Index
- About the Author
- Other Volumes in the Series