Sexual Desires and ‘Social Evils’: Young women in rural Vietnam
Sexual Desires and ‘Social Evils’: Young women in rural Vietnam
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性欲与“社会罪恶”:越南农村的年轻女性
DOI:
10.1080/09663690600701053
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
1.8
通讯作者:
H. Rydström
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作者:
H. Rydström
Vietnam's increased integration into the global market economy entails rapid and dynamic changes that foster new ways of acting, interacting and rendering the world meaningful. This article addresses the ways in which an ongoing process of transformation in contemporary Vietnam is epitomised by the ambivalence and ambiguity with which female sexuality is imbued. Female sexuality is ideally restricted to marriage and motherhood, meaning that females' premarital or extramarital sexual relations tend to be associated with the category of ‘social evils’ (te nan xa hoi). The category of ‘social evils’ is vague in definition and was introduced into Vietnamese society by virtue of what was seen as the country's increased involvement in a morally polluted world. By drawing on two periods of fieldwork (1994–1995 and 2000–2001) in a northern rural Vietnamese commune, this article highlights the ways in which female sexuality in a local field site is intertwined with anxieties about the forces of a global and ‘poiso...