1st Edition
Women's Bodies, Women's Worries Health and Family Planning in a Vietnamese Rural Commune
By Tine Gammeltoft
Copyright 1999
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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The first fully-fledged ethnography on health-related issues to come out of contemporary Vietnam, Women's Bodies, Women's Worries is a study of women's lives in a rural commune in Vietnam's Red River delta. Starting as an examination of the impact of Vietnam's ambitious family planning policy on the health and lives of rural women, the study explores historical and contemporary socio-cultural... Read more
Prologue 1. Introduction 2. Fieldwork 3. Planning Happy Families 4. The IUD and Women's Health 5. Body and Health 6. Local Moral Worlds 7. The Expression of Distress 8. Conclusion: Antropologies of Suffering and Resistance
Biography
Tine Gammeltoft
'in her deft handling of important issues of gender, economic life, state power and discourse, Gammeltoft covers extensive territory of interest to the anthropology of China and Southeast Asia in general.' - Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
