Women in Vietnamese society, history and

This course explores the roles and representations of women in Vietnamese society, history and literature from premodern to contemporary times through folklore, poetry, prose and films. From different angles, in different contexts and through different approaches we will critically engage and situate literary and visual texts within larger historical processes of antiquity, folkore, religious beliefs and practice, sexual politics, feminism, monarchy, colonialism, war, modernity, nation-building and globalization that have impacted the roles and identities of Vietnamese women through the ages.