Breadwinning wives and "left-behind" husbands: Men and masculinities in the Vietnamese transnational family

Gender and Society

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 717-739

  Hoang, Lan Anh ^a   Yeoh, Brenda S A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

fatherhood; gender; masculinities; transnational labor migration; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 82755187070     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243211430636     Document Type: Article

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