Preface / Keith Taylor -- Introduction: Gender and Viet Nam studies / Jayne Werner and Danièle Bélanger -- Gender, household and state: renovation (Đỏ̂i mới) as social process in Việt Nam / Jayne Werner -- Gender expectations of Vietnamese garment workers: Việt Nam's re-integration into the world economy / Trần Ngọc Angie -- Village households in the Red River Delta: the case of Tả Thanh Oai, on the outskirts of the capital city, Hà Nội / Nelly Krowolski -- Too late to marry: failure, fate or fortune? Female singlehood in rural North Việt Nam / Danièle Bélanger and Khuá̂t Thu Hồng -- The irony of sexual agency: premarital sex in urban Northern Việt Nam / Tine Gammeltoft -- Governing sex: medicine and governmental intervention in prostitution / Nguyẽ̂n-võ Thu-huʹoʹng