Title: Review: <i>Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam</i>, by Harriet M. Phinney
Abstract: Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam, by Harriet M. Phinney Harriet M. Phinney, Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam.Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2022. 236 pages. $105.00 (hardcover), $32.00 (paperback). Thuy ThiThanh Do Thuy ThiThanh Do Simon Fraser University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Vietnamese Studies (2023) 18 (4): 130–133. https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2023.18.4.130 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Thuy ThiThanh Do; Review: Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam, by Harriet M. Phinney. Journal of Vietnamese Studies 1 November 2023; 18 (4): 130–133. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2023.18.4.130 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Vietnamese Studies Search In Single Mothers and the State’s Embrace: Reproductive Agency in Vietnam, Harriet M. Phinney examines what leads single women in northern Vietnam to “ask for a child,” or ask for a man to engage in sexual relations for the purpose of conception [xin con]. In response to single women’s desire for reproductive rights, Phinney shows, the Vietnamese state has embraced xin con as a “socially intelligible kinship” practice (4). Phinney focuses on agency, governmentality, and subjectivity as they affect single women’s reproductive desires as “empirical realities and as analytic categories” (5). This book offers insight into Phinney’s long-term research into the topic of xin con, which she has conducted since the 1990s. Instead of seeing Vietnamese women as victims of society and state policies on reproduction, Phinney focuses on Vietnamese women as agents for change. According to Phinney, xin con is a “revolutionary transformation” in postwar... You do not currently have access to this content.
Publication Year: 2023
Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Language: en
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