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Vietnam's Socialist Servants - Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity (Paperback)
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Vietnam's Socialist Servants - Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity (Paperback)
Series: Asia's Transformations
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Since Vietnam introduced economic reforms in the mid-1980s,
domestic service has become an established sector of the labour
market, and domestic workers have become indispensable to urban
life in the rapidly changing country. This book analyzes the ways
in which the practices and discourses of domestic service serve to
forge and contest emerging class identities in post-reform Vietnam.
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 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. These boundaries are nevertheless riddled with gender
and class anxiety on the side of the latter, partly because of the
very struggles and contestations of the domestic workers. More
broadly, Minh T. N. Nguyen links the often invisible intimate
dynamics of class formation in the domestic sphere with wider
political economic processes in a post-socialist country embarking
on marketization while retaining the political control of a
party-state. As a pioneering ethnographic study of domestic service
in Vietnam today, this book will be of great interest to students
and scholars of Southeast Asian culture & society, social
anthropology, gender studies, human geography and development
studies.
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