Masculinity and Violence in Vietnam 1
Rydström, Helle LU
(2022)
- Abstract
- In this essay, I draw on fieldwork conducted in Vietnam to reflect on their meaning and implications for understanding continuity and change in patterns of intimate partner violence in Vietnamese society. Current discussions in Vietnam of men’s violence against women elucidate both efforts to deal with a societal problem and manage it in ways, which tend to maintain the gendered asymmetries within which it occurs. The distribution of powers and privileges in a patrilineally and heterosexually organized universe, which favors men over women, have taken form and been institutionalized over time, generating ideas and images of women and men, femininity and masculinity that together condition the production of a pervasive and exaggerated type... (More)
- In this essay, I draw on fieldwork conducted in Vietnam to reflect on their meaning and implications for understanding continuity and change in patterns of intimate partner violence in Vietnamese society. Current discussions in Vietnam of men’s violence against women elucidate both efforts to deal with a societal problem and manage it in ways, which tend to maintain the gendered asymmetries within which it occurs. The distribution of powers and privileges in a patrilineally and heterosexually organized universe, which favors men over women, have taken form and been institutionalized over time, generating ideas and images of women and men, femininity and masculinity that together condition the production of a pervasive and exaggerated type of masculinity. (Less)
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- author
- Rydström, Helle
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022-06-15
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Masculinity, Violence against Women, Silence, Legal Protection, Women's Union, Vietnam
- host publication
- Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Vietnam
- editor
- London, Jonathan D.
- publisher
- Routledge
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85143936293
- ISBN
- 9781315762302
- 9781138792258
- DOI
- 10.4324/9781315762302-31
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 627fae03-fddd-4edb-985a-9bf46081290b (old id 5212621)
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