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Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace

- Reproductive Agency in Vietnam
Af: Harriet M. Phinney Engelsk Hardback

Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace

- Reproductive Agency in Vietnam
Af: Harriet M. Phinney Engelsk Hardback
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The first in-depth study of xin con (asking for a child)

In the mid-1980s, after the Indochina Wars, a shortage of men meant that many single women in Vietnam found themselves without suitable marital prospects. A number of these women chose to pursue single motherhood by “asking for a child” (xin con)—asking men to get them pregnant out of wedlock. Xin con appeared to be a radical departure from traditional Vietnamese kinship values and practices, which were based in Confucian patriarchal and patrilineal reproductive interests. However, this innovative solution was rooted in both pre- and postwar values, practices, and notions of gender, kinship, love, and sexuality.

This ethnography explores the practice of xin con among single mothers in the postwar era and today, and considers the ways their reproductive agency was embraced rather than rejected by the Vietnamese state as it entered the global market economy. Rather than condemning or trying to restrict older single women’s reproductive agency, government officials enacted policies that would accommodate both the women and the state—a strategy that represents an intriguing alignment of Confucian heritage, Communist ideology, and governing tactics and demonstrates the social power of women.

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The first in-depth study of xin con (asking for a child)

In the mid-1980s, after the Indochina Wars, a shortage of men meant that many single women in Vietnam found themselves without suitable marital prospects. A number of these women chose to pursue single motherhood by “asking for a child” (xin con)—asking men to get them pregnant out of wedlock. Xin con appeared to be a radical departure from traditional Vietnamese kinship values and practices, which were based in Confucian patriarchal and patrilineal reproductive interests. However, this innovative solution was rooted in both pre- and postwar values, practices, and notions of gender, kinship, love, and sexuality.

This ethnography explores the practice of xin con among single mothers in the postwar era and today, and considers the ways their reproductive agency was embraced rather than rejected by the Vietnamese state as it entered the global market economy. Rather than condemning or trying to restrict older single women’s reproductive agency, government officials enacted policies that would accommodate both the women and the state—a strategy that represents an intriguing alignment of Confucian heritage, Communist ideology, and governing tactics and demonstrates the social power of women.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 236
ISBN-13: 9780295749426
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 0295749423
Kategori: Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger
Udg. Dato: 1 feb 2022
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 152mm
Højde: 229mm
Forlag: University of Washington Press
Oplagsdato: 1 feb 2022
Forfatter(e): Harriet M. Phinney
Forfatter(e) Harriet M. Phinney

Kategori Kønsstudier: kvinder og piger

ISBN-13 9780295749426

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 236

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 152mm

Højde 229mm

Udg. Dato 1 feb 2022

Oplagsdato 1 feb 2022

Forlag University of Washington Press