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Vietnam's Socialist Servants - Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity (Hardcover)
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Vietnam's Socialist Servants - Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity (Hardcover)
Series: Asia's Transformations
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Since the introduction of economic reforms in the mid-1980 which
sought to create a socialist-oriented market economy in Vietnam,
domestic service has become an established sector of the labour
market, and domestic workers have become indispensable to urban
life. This book analyzes the ways in which class identities are
forged and contested through the practices and discourses of
domestic service, which, is central to middle-class domesticity in
Vietnam today. Drawing on a rich and diverse range of qualitative
data, including ethnographies, interviews, and narratives, it shows
that such practices and discourses are rooted in cultural notions
of gender and rural-urban difference and enduring socialist
structures of feeling, which in turn, clash more and more with the
realities of growing differentiation. Domestic workers' experiences
reveal negotiations with class boundaries actively set by the urban
middle class, who seek distinction through emerging notions and
practices of domesticity, and these boundaries are ridden with
gender and class anxiety, partly because of the very struggles and
contestations of the workers. More broadly, Minh T. N.Nguyen links
the often invisible intimate dynamics of class formation in the
domestic sphere with broader political economic processes in a
post-socialist country embarking on marketization while retaining
the political control of a party-state. As an ethnographic study of
domestic service in Vietnam, this book will be of huge interest to
students and scholars of Southeast Asian culture & society,
social anthropology, gender studies, human geography and
development studies.
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