The Women of Vietnam

Vietnamese women are affected by Confucianism, colonialism, capitalism, communism, and wars. For a long time, the history of East Asian women paralleled that of Confucianism. Women participated in and bore witness to history; they wrote it through their work, sacrifices, sweat, blood, and lives. The history of Vietnamese women is the story of people in search of an elusive freedom for the last two millennia. And not writing about them would be similar to neglecting a big chunk of history for they were not only the guardians of conformity and social mores, they also bore past and present children as well as the future of the nation.