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Woman, Buddhist, Entrepreneur: Gender, Moral Values, and Class Anxiety in Late Socialist Vietnam
Ann Marie Leshkowich
Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 1 No. 1-2, February/August 2006; (pp. 277-313) DOI: 10.1525/vs.2006.1.1-2.277
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By the 1990s, Doi Moi had sparked both desire for profit and suspicion of wealth as a threat to traditional Vietnamese morality. This article explores how one successful businesswoman responded by attributing her prosperity to Buddhist piety. In rejecting the Confucian ethics favored by businessmen, she advanced an interpretation of traditional morality more accommodating of women and defended her class privilege as righteous. Her narrative draws attention to individual performances of class as a means both to justify one's own status and to contribute to the gendered, political, religious, and moral discourses through which class stratification comes to be seen as natural.

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Ann Marie Leshkowich
Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 1 No. 1-2, February/August 2006; (pp. 277-313) DOI: 10.1525/vs.2006.1.1-2.277
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Woman, Buddhist, Entrepreneur: Gender, Moral Values, and Class Anxiety in Late Socialist Vietnam
Ann Marie Leshkowich
Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol. 1 No. 1-2, February/August 2006; (pp. 277-313) DOI: 10.1525/vs.2006.1.1-2.277
Ann Marie Leshkowich
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