From Combat to Diplomacy: Revolutionary Vietnamese Women and the Making of Peace-Building Authority

When

Monday, November 9, 12 PM to 1:15 PM

Where

Wilson Hall, Charlottesville

Price

Free

Vietnamese women who fought in the wars of resistance later became some of the country’s most visible diplomats and peace advocates, from the Paris Peace negotiations to post-war international engagement. Drawing on archival sources and life histories spanning 1954 to 2007, this talk examines how these women translated the legitimacy they earned in combat to authority in diplomacy and peace-building. It considers how revolutionary service and the wartime ideal of women’s “three responsibilities” shaped the paths that brought women to the negotiating table and into international advocacy, and what those paths both opened and constrained. It concludes by asking what their experience tells us about the relationship between feminism, nationalism, and peace in Vietnam and in the Global South more broadly. The talk is based on the speaker’s recent article in Gender & History. This talk takes place in Wilson 142

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