VIETNAM JOURNAL- New Position of Women

VIETNAM JOURNAL New Position of Women Harish Chandola I CANNOT help finding reflections of the present-day life in my country in the not so distant past of North Vietnam, For instance, when members of the Vietnam Women's Union (VWU) tell me that, before the Vietnamese revolution, the birth of a baby-girl was received coldly by the father because she could not continue the lineage and perpetuate the family heritage. Or when people in the village tell me of the old folksong, sung as a lullaby by mothers with their baby-daughters in their arms: