Gender property and the Autonomy thesis in Southeast_Asia外文部分.pdfVIP

The Journal of Asian Studies Vol. 67, No. 1 (February) 2008: 43–72. © 2008 Association of Asian Studies Inc. doi: 10.1017/S0021911808000028 Gender, Property, and the “Autonomy Thesis” in Southeast Asia: The Endowment of Local Succession in Early Modern Vietnam NHUNG TUYET TRAN The claim that Vietnamese inheritance patterns were bilateral and indicative of wider patterns of Southeast Asian women’s autonomy or Vietnamese protona- tional uniqueness reflect major themes in the historiography on V