How do families remain close when turbulent forces threaten to tear them apart? In this
groundbreaking book based on more than a decade of research set in Vietnam, Merav …

The Vietnamese ethic of hy sinh, typically translated as “sacrifice,” involves moral conduct
and dispositions that emphasize showing respect to sociocultural “superiors” and yielding to …

While recent LGBT rights demonstrations and discussions about same-sex marriage have
thrust the issue of homosexuality into the spotlight, it was not long ago that the issue of …

Rape has long been a part of war, and recent conflicts in Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur
demonstrate that it may be becoming an even more integral strategy of modern warfare. In …

'Sex, love and feminism'are three aspects of the rapidly changing gender relations that
shape young people's lives in the Asia Pacific region. Much has been written about rapidly …

I would like to begin this study by recounting a conversation I had with a fourteen-year-old
boy on a beach in north-eastern Vietnam in June 2007. This was the first time I had had the …

Over the past two decades, Korean television drama (K-drama), which stands at the forefront
of the Korean Wave, the popularisation of South Korean pop culture worldwide, has raised …

Academic women in the Mekong Delta (MD) in southern Viet Nam remain underrepresented
in key leadership positions and other positions of power and influence in their institutions …

Over recent decades, the importance of sexual health for global public health has achieved
increasing recognition internationally. This chapter focuses on sexual health in Vietnam. The …

This article takes the notion of crisis as a helpful analytical entry point to unfold the tem-
poralities and modalities of the machinery of violence as manifested in men's abuse of their …