Women's Bodies, Women's Worries
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Contraceptive Choices
Contraceptive Methods
control
Copper IUDs
Dominant Moral Ideologies
emotional distress expression
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ethnographic research on Vietnamese women
Families Happy
family
Family Planning
Family Planning Cadres
Family Planning Committee
Family Planning Messages
Family Planning Policy
Family Planning Service Provision
Family Planning Workers
Gynaecological Infection
Human Suffering
IUD Insertion
IUD User
Large Families
local
Local Moral Worlds
medical anthropology
Menstrual Regulations
moral
moral regulation
planning
qualitative fieldwork
reproductive
reproductive health
Reproductive Tract Infections
rural Vietnam studies
Tinh Cam
tract
Vietnamese Women
Women's Contraceptive Choices
work
worlds
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780700711116
- Weight: 690g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 14 Dec 1998
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
