Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463-1778

by Nhung Tuyet Tran

Book Overview

Familial Properties is the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Author Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based on primogeniture, some women were able to manipulate the system to their own advantage. Women succeeded in taking pragmatic advantage of socioeconomic turmoil during a time of war and chaos to acquire wealth and, to some extent, control...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824884361
• ISBN13: 9780824884369
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"