Single mothers and the state's embrace :: reproductive agency in Vietnam /

"In the mid-1980s, after the Indochina Wars, a shortage of men meant that many single women in northern Vietnam found themselves without suitable marital prospects. Increasingly, they began to pursue single motherhood by "asking for a child" (xin con), seeking men who would agree to i...

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1. Verfasser: Phinney, Harriet M. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2022]
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Zusammenfassung:"In the mid-1980s, after the Indochina Wars, a shortage of men meant that many single women in northern Vietnam found themselves without suitable marital prospects. Increasingly, they began to pursue single motherhood by "asking for a child" (xin con), seeking men who would agree to impregnate them. Xin con was a radical departure from traditional Vietnamese kinship values and practices, which were based in Confucian patriarchal and patrilineal ideology. A principal question generated by this phenomenon was whether xin con was solely a response to the postwar demographic imbalance or whether it presaged a more permanent shift in reproductive strategy. Drawing attention away from men's patrilineal reproductive interests, the practice foregrounds women's maternal desires and subjectivities. This longitudinal ethnography, the first in-depth study of xin con, follows post-war single mothers through the next generation, exploring their reproductive agency, the government's legitimation of xin con as a socially intelligible reproductive option, and the new social position of these women"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780295749440
029574944X

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