Essential trade : Vietnamese women in a changing marketplace / Ann Marie Leshkowich.

Author/creator Leshkowich, Ann Marie author.
Format Book
PublicationHonolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2014]
Descriptionxi, 251 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Chọ Bé̂n Thành (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Chọ Bé̂n Thành (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Women merchants--Vietnam. --Ho Chi Minh City.
Clothing trade--Vietnam. --Ho Chi Minh City.
Sex role in the work environment--Vietnam. --Ho Chi Minh City.

SeriesSoutheast Asia politics, meaning, and memory
Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory. ^A611832
Contents Placing Bến Thành Market: the naturalization of space and commerce -- Marketing femininity: gender essentialism in traders' daily lives -- Relative matters: family values and kinship relations in market stalls -- Inside and outside: sociofiscal relationships and the risks of doing business -- Wandering ghosts of market socialism: governmentality and memory in the marketplace -- Superstitious values and religious subjectivity: stallholders' spiritual beliefs and practices -- Producing down and consuming up: middle classmaking under (market) socialism.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 207-244) and index.
LCCN 2014010398
ISBN9780824839901 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
ISBN0824839900 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780824839918 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
ISBN0824839919 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
Standard identifier# 40024203173