Woman as Nation: Tradition and Modernity Narratives in Vietnamese Histories

Tran, Nhung Tuyet

doi:10.1111/j.1468-0424.2012.01689.x

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“…The women's movement in Vietnam grew alongside the country's independence (anticolonial) movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (Lessard, 2010). It was linked to the growth and popularity of socialism, which offered a compelling alternative to French colonial capitalism, and so the women's movement in Vietnam was subsumed under these broader struggles (Marr, 1984; Tran, 2012). This was borne out in Mai's life story where there was no readily available discourse for her to draw on to interpret her experiences as a gendered subject in the same way that women in Western countries might do.…”

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Advancing a critical social psychological perspective on women's leadership: A case illustration from the Global South

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When applied to the Global South, mainstream positivist approaches to work and organisational psychology impose alien theories of personality (the self) and leadership. In the case of women, they fail to capture the richness of their experiences of life and leadership, which are influenced by the nexus between history, power and marginalisation-for many, even oppression. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the value of a critical social psychological approach, despite its grounding in the Global North discourse, to analyse women's leadership from a cross-cultural context. To illustrate, we provide an empirical example of a Vietnamese woman leader's life-story drawing on the theoretical resources from critical social psychology to interpret her experiences. When viewed from this perspective, women's leadership is understood within a dialogical space, which is prior to and more fundamental than any instrumental reason and technical rationality. It is argued that this approach resists essentialising assumptions about gender and cultural practices of leadership, providing a more liberating means to understand the life and leadership of Vietnamese women. In the final analysis, we argue that

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“…As a part of the civilising mission, the French colonialists started to admit girls to schools which had been exclusive to men during the feudal periods. The French's purpose for granting education to women was to liberate Vietnamese women from perceived "backward local cultural practices" (Chiricosta, 2010) and produce valuable citizens for the colony (N. T. Tran, 2012). However, access to education was only available in the urban areas, which resulted in the contradictory effects on different groups of women.…”

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“…They joined the new movement in poetry and literature in the 1930s (see section 2.2.3) to oppose the rigid structure of the Chinese style literature (Chiricosta, 2010). They published their views and raise their voice in women's issues (N. T. Tran, 2012). Notable examples of publications by women and for women were Women's Bell by Sương Nguyệt Anh, an accomplished poet, daughter of an anti-colonial scholar.…”

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Women's career in Vietnamese academia: An analysis from multiple lenses

Tran¹

2022

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The findings from this study make several contributions to the current literature. First, this study is one of the first to thoroughly examine the gendering process in Vietnam in general, and in Vietnamese academia specifically. The new insights about the gendering process help to pave the way for the development of gender studies in Vietnam, (de)construction women’s careers in Vietnam, and to integrate a minority perspective into mainstream scholarly works. Moreover, my study explores the construction of gender and its impact on women’s experience in the labour market in relation to the imposition of eastern and western knowledge in a developing country whose colonial history is shaped by both eastern and western colonisation. This study will be of interest to any colonial discourse scholars who attempt to challenge the view of the relations between (and among) Western and Eastern countries as binary, fixed and categorial with the West as the colonisers and the East as the colonised.One major limitation of the study is that although the study focuses on the ‘other’ perspective, the Vietnamese academia is treated as homogenous and some factors such as ethnicities or regional culture have not been paid adequate attention. In addition, my study focuses solely on academic women in heterosexual relationships and therefore might overlook the subordination of people with non-heteronormative forms of sexuality.

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Commentary: Modernity and Reflexivity in Vietnamese Higher Education—Situating the Role of the Ideological, Capacity Building, Learning Organisation, and Policy Reform

Felix

2020

Higher Education in Market-Oriented Socialist Vietnam

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Woman as Nation: Tradition and Modernity Narratives in Vietnamese Histories

Cited by 13 publications

References 3 publications

Advancing a critical social psychological perspective on women's leadership: A case illustration from the Global South

Advancing a critical social psychological perspective on women's leadership: A case illustration from the Global South

Women's career in Vietnamese academia: An analysis from multiple lenses

Commentary: Modernity and Reflexivity in Vietnamese Higher Education—Situating the Role of the Ideological, Capacity Building, Learning Organisation, and Policy Reform

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