Minh T. N. Nguyen

Gebundenes Buch

Vietnam's Socialist Servants

Domesticity, Class, Gender, and Identity

Beschreibung

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. 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 this book reveals how these boundaries are ridden with gender and class anxiety, partly because of the very struggles and contestations of the workers.

Autor

Minh T. N. Nguyen is a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9781138023413
• ISBN-10: 1138023418
• Artikelnr.: 40758736

Rezensionen

"This is an easy-to-read work with engaging stories that do not damage its academic rigor. It provides us a window into understanding current Vietnamese society, gender relations, and daily family life. I learned a lot from this book regarding cultural practices and I trust that readers will also find many parts of this work very useful in their research into gender, labour, or migration." - Hong-zen Wang, Pacific Affairs: Volume 89, No. 3 - September 2016

"This is but one of the many striking insights Nguyen presents in her study, which I regard as a significant contribution to the anthropology of Vietnam, as well as to the global literature on migration and social reproduction. As studies of domestic work elsewhere have shown, maids frequently act as a catalyst for anxieties around status, class boundaries and gender roles in contexts of rapid social change. Nguyen's work offers us a fascinating insider account of how these contradictions play out in both familiar and unique ways in the Vietnamese context." - ASHLEY CARRUTHERS, Australian National University, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology