Between Sacrifice and Desire
Subtitle: National Identity and the Governing of Femininity in Vietnam (East Asia (New York, N.Y.).)
Publisher: Routledge
Published: February 28, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780415944311
First sentence: IN 1945, THE FOUNDERS OF THE NEW DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM ("DRV") declared that Vietnamese women were no longer doomed to live their lives as the 'slaves of slaves,' but would be recognized as equal members of a newly independent nation.