‘A good wife stays home’: gendered negotiations over state agricultural programmes, upland Vietnam

Gender, Place and Culture

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1302-1320

  Bonnin, Christine ^a   Turner, Sarah ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

agricultural intensification; gendered livelihoods; Hmong; hybrid seeds; Vietnam; Yao

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL TECHNOLOGY; ETHNIC MINORITY; FOOD SECURITY; GENDER RELATIONS; GENDER ROLE;

VIET NAM;

EID: 84911368442     PISSN: 0966369X     EISSN: 13600524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0966369X.2013.832663     Document Type: Article

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