Familial Properties: Gender, State, and Society in Early Modern Vietnam, 1463–1778 - Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory

Offers the first full-length history of Vietnamese gender relations in the precolonial period. Nhung Tuyet Tran shows how, despite the bias in law and practice of a patrilineal society based on primogeniture, some women were able to manipulate the system to their own advantage.