Women, Feminism, and Confucianism in Vietnam in the Early 20th Century

Cao Kim Lan

doi:10.22801/svn.2019.11.1.185

Women, Feminism, and Confucianism in Vietnam in the Early 20th Century

SUVANNABHUMI
Abbr : SVN
2019, 11(1), pp.185-202
DOI : 10.22801/svn.2019.11.1.185
Publisher : Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > Southeast Asia
Received : April 10, 2018
Accepted : December 15, 2018
Published : January 31, 2019

Cao Kim Lan ¹

¹Institute of Literature, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences (VASS)

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The early years of the twentieth century introduced Vietnam, then a French colony, to feminism, which helped expose the problem of suicide among women, prostitution, and the trafficking. This article surveyed writings in three influential newspapers published for and by women, namely, “Phụ Nữ Tân Văn” (PNTV) (Woman’s Newspaper) 1929-1934,“Phụ nữ Thời Đàm” (PNTĐ) (Women’s Discussions on Topical Questions) 1930-1934, and “Đàn Bà”(ĐB) (Women) 1939-1945. The writings were analyzed to illustrate how feminism was perpetrated in this period, and how the writers were able to reconcile it with prevalent Confucianism, which this paper also argued as having put in place, gender inequality.

KEYWORDS

Women, Confucianism, Feminism, Women’s Newspapers

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Scopus Citation Counts (2) This is the result of checking the information with the same ISSN, publication year, volume, and start page between articles in KCI and the SCOPUS journals. (as of 2024-10-01)

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