Cultivating Gender: Meanings of Place and Work in Rural Vietnam

by Cecilia Bergsted

"The husband ploughs, the wife transplants, the buffalo harrows." In rural Vietnam, this ancient saying has survived communist revolution, land reforms and the recent rise of market-oriented household farming. And yet, even if this trinity still pictures the ideal essence of farming life, the reality is that urbanization, labour migration and economic change in the Vietnamese countryside are leading to a feminization of farming. This transformation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8776941809
• ISBN13: 9788776941802
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"