Monday, November 28, 2011

Preparing for Travel to Vietnam and Cambodia

I have read and am continuing to read about Vietnam and Cambodia, with a focus on gender (see below). The first book I picked up was Even the Women Must Fight. Turner’s observation that she gained many privileges as a result of the women’s liberation movement when women in Vietnam and Cambodia were fighting to save their countries and to survive has continued to resonate throughout my reading. I am on my way.

Karen Brickell. 2011. “We don’t forget the old rice pot when we get the new one:” Discourses on ideals and practices of women in contemporary Cambodia.Signs 36 (2): 437-462.

Wendy Nicole Duong. 2000. “Gender equality and women’s issues in Vietnam: The Vietnam woman—warrior and poet.” Pacific Rim Law and Policy Journal 10: 191.
Focus on factors that limit advocacy for gender equality in contemporary Vietnam.

Lisa Drummond. 2006. “Gender in post-doi moi Vietnam: Women, desire, and change.” Gender, Place, and Culture 13 (3) :247-250.
Examines the impact of economic and social change on Vietnamese women.

Annuska Durks. 2008. Kymer Women on the Move: Exploring Work and Life in Urban Cambodia. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i.
Ethnography of young Cambodian women from rural areas who move to cities.

Karen Gottschang Turner with Phan Thanh Hao. 1998. Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam. New York: Wiley.
Focus on the contributions of Vietnamese women to the struggle for independence and the longterm consequences of their engagement.

Terry McCoy. 2010. “Cambodia’s first gay town. Make no mistake: This is not a place to celebrate sexuality. This is a place for survival.” Global Post. November 12. Retrieved November 4, 2011 http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/asia/101110/cambodia-homosexual-gay-rights.
Focus on a developing gay community in Cambodia and the difficulties in obtaining acceptance and equality.
Tanja R. Muller. 2007. “Education and gender in revolutionary societies: Insights from Vietnam, Nicaragua, and Eritrea.” Compare 37 (5): 635-650.
Lessons from revolutionary states about education as a source of social equity.

Phuong H. Vo, Kate Penrose, and S. Jody Heymann. 2007. “Working to exit poverty while caring for children’s health and development in Vietnam.” Community, Work, and Family 10 (2): 179-199.
How labor and social conditions affect parents’ abilities to work and exit poverty.

Carol Wagner. 2002. Soul Survivors: Stories of Women and Children in Cambodia. Berkely: Creative Arts
Stories of women and children who stayed in Cambodia after the genocide (1975-1979).

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