Offers the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period.
Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based on primogeniture, some women were able to manipulate the system to their own advantage.
University Of Hawai'i Press Familial properties. gender, state, and society in early modern vietnam, 1463-1778, paperback/nhung tuyet tran
