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Helle

Helle Rydström

Professor

Helle

A Zone of Exception: Gendered Violences of Family 'Happiness' in Vietnam

Författare

  • Helle Rydström

Summary, in English

This article examines the ways in which women’s ‘family happiness’ in Vietnam paradoxically, and alarmingly, is rendered compatible with the endurance of what is diminished as ‘minor’ partner violence. Thus focusing on the gendering of ‘happiness’ and the discrepancies between ideals and practices, the article unfolds how intersections between a number of ‘power-geometries’ including violence preventive legislation, an official family discourse, and the patrilineally organized family facilitate the conditions that allow for male-to-female violence in the domestic sphere. The article highlights how Intimate Partner Violence transmutes the ‘happy family’ into a ‘zone of exception’ wherein which the laws prohibiting violence are suspended, the juridico-political status and rights of a woman blurred, and a state of chronic precariousness and crisis generated. Such tendencies are fortified by the ambiguous strategies of the Women’s Union. In maneuvering between violence preventive legislation and family ideals, the Union is criticizing patriarchal family hierarchies while also encouraging women to nurture family happiness by complying with an abusive partner.

Avdelning/ar

  • Genusvetenskap

Publiceringsår

2017-07-26

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1051-1070

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Gender, Place and Culture

Volym

24

Issue

7

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Gender Studies

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0966-369X