Women's Bodies, Women's Worries

Health and Family Planning in a Vietnamese Rural Commune

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ID19924933
AuthorsT M Gammeltoft (0000-0002-6723-2370, Department of Social Sciences, corresponding author), Tine Gammeltoft
Year2012
Pages288
Publication date2012-12-06
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueWomen's Bodies, Women's Worries (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780203036877
OpenAlexW4246918737
Open LibraryOL53938938M
ISBN9780203036877
LanguageEN
Citations received7

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 forces which influence the lives of Vietnamese women. What begins as an investigation of contraceptive side effects becomes an inquiry into the daily lives of rural women, an examination of the moral ideologies by which women's lives are circumscribed, and an exploration of the ways women themselves manage and negotiate the moral demands and social relations which constitute daily lives. In addition, the book provides a sympathetic account of the everyday lives and concerns of rural women while also including theoretical considerations of the social grounding of bodily experience, the cultural meanings of health and illness, and the everyday politics of emotional expression

Art · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · History · Psychology · asia · Birth control · Health and hygiene · Vietnam · Women · Women's rights

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