Vietnamese Women's Experiences During the War
From: Hong Anh Thi Vu
Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:12 AM
Dear list,
I'm looking for writing in Vietnamese and English on the experiences of Vietnamese women during the Vietnam/American War from different classes: e.g., peasant, prostitute, worker, cadre, young girl, old woman, etc. Could you suggest relevant sources from your readings?
Thank you so much.
Hong Anh Vu
Ph.D Candidate
Department of Anthropology
Syracuse University
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From: Sidel, Mark
Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:35 AM
Karen Turner's Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam (Wiley, 1999) is excellent on this.
Mark Sidel
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From: Hue-Tam Ho Tai
Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:45 AM
Also:
Le Ly Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places.
Nguyen thi Dinh, No Other Road to Take
Hue-Tam Ho Tai
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From: Scott Laderman
Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 6:56 AM
Duong Van Mai Elliott's _The Sacred Willow_ is also excellent, in my opinion.
Scott Laderman
University of Minnesota, Duluth
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From: Peter Zinoman
Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:14 AM
_ François Guillemot, <http://caliber.ucpress.net/action/doSearch?action=runSearch&type=advanced&result=true&prevSearch=%2Bauthorsfield%3A%28Guillemot%252C%2BFran%25C3%25A7ois%29>_Death and Suffering at First Hand: Youth Shock Brigades during the Vietnam War (1950–1975) <http://caliber.ucpress.net/action/doSearch?action=runSearch&type=advanced&result=true&prevSearch=%2Bauthorsfield%3A%28Guillemot%252C%2BFran%25C3%25A7ois%29>__ <http://caliber.ucpress.net/action/doSearch?action=runSearch&type=advanced&result=true&prevSearch=%2Bauthorsfield%3A%28Guillemot%252C%2BFran%25C3%25A7ois%29>
Journal of Vietnamese Studies, Vol 4, No.3 (Fall, 2009): 17-60.
This superb article examines the participation of young women in the social and military corps first established by the Viet Minh in 1950 and reactivated by the DRV during the 2nd Indochina War.
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From: Thaveeporn Vasavakul
Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:59 AM
i wrote a very short piece when at the ANU in the mid- 1990s. the article has a few references which might be useful. i do not have the book with me at the moment. if convenient, please check Thaveeporn Vasavakul, "Official Nationalism and Its Practitioners: Vietnamese Women and the Viet Nam War" in Adam Lucas, ed., Vietnam Voices. Sydney: Casula Power House Museum, 1997, pp. 84-90.
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From: william turley
Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 8:57 AM
Another short piece written during the war and without benefit of access to the DRV is "Women in the Communist Revolution in Vietnam," Asian Survey, XII, (September 1972), pp. 798-805.
Bill Turley
William S. Turley
Coste Longue
Chemin Notre Dame
Lançon-de-Provence, France 13680
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From: BoiTran Huynh
Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 12:43 PM
The latest book is probably Memory is Another Country by Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen, published by Pragaer in 2009, released just a couple of months ago by University of Melbourne in Australia. Stories range from cross-cultural marriages to Southern Vietnamese women in uniform. See
http://www.abc-clio.com/products/overview.aspx?productid=111086&viewid=1
Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen also has a few books on Vietnamese women: Vietnamese Voices: Gender and Cultural identity in Vietnamese Franco Novel (2003) and Voyage of Hope (2005)
http://intersections.anu.edu.au/issue10/medcalf_review.html
Cheers,
Boitran
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From: Robert Whitehurst
Date: Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 7:36 AM
I would include on your list Nhật ký Đặng Thùy Trâm by Đặng Thùy Trâm in Vietnamese, or translated into English as Last Night I Dreamed of Peace .
Regards…R. Whitehurst