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 the revolution / Sandra C. Taylor.
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Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c1999.
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N959.7043082/1
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English
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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.
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Lawrence : University Press of Kansas, c1999.
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Kansas
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c1999.
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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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Vietnamese women at war : fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the revolution / Sandra C. Taylor.
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Modern war studies.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N959.7043082/1
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74VvWdR544jA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvWdR544jA
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0700612564 (alk. paper)
070060927X (alk. paper)
070060927X (alk. cloth)
9780700612567 (alk. paper)
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959.7043082
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991011867479702626