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Vietnamese women at war : fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the revolution / Sandra C. Taylor.

Vietnamese women at war : fighting for Ho Chi Minh and ...

Vietnamese women at war : fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the revolution / Sandra C. Taylor.

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Vietnamese women at war : fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the revolution / Sandra C. Taylor.

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Full title

Vietnamese women at war : fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the revolution / Sandra C. Taylor.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c1999.

Call Numbers

N959.7043082/1

Record Identifier

74VvWdR544jA

MMS ID

991011867479702626

Language

English

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Physical Description

Physical content

x, 170 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.

Contents

1. Revolutionary Women -- 2. War in the Delta, War in the Jungles -- 3. From Uprising to Protracted War -- 4. The Long-Haired Warriors -- 5. Youth at War -- 6. War in the North -- 7. After the Shooting Stopped.

Publication information

Publisher

Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c1999.

Place of Publication

Kansas

Date Published

c1999.

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Scope and Contents

Summary

Taylor relates how this war for liberation from foreign oppressors also liberated Vietnamese women from centuries of Confucian influence that had made them second-class citizens. She reveals that Communism's promise of freedom from those strictures influenced their involvement in the war, and also shares the irony that their sex gave them an advant...

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Full title

Vietnamese women at war : fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the revolution / Sandra C. Taylor.

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Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Modern war studies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Date Copyright

c1999.

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Call Numbers

N959.7043082/1

Record Identifier

74VvWdR544jA

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvWdR544jA

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ISBN

0700612564 (alk. paper)

070060927X (alk. paper)

070060927X (alk. cloth)

9780700612567 (alk. paper)

DDC

959.7043082

MMS ID

991011867479702626

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