On Radicalism and Ethnographic Research on Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Vietnam

Ann Marie Leshkowich is Professor of Anthropology, College of the Holy Cross. Her research focuses on gender, class, economic transformation, fashion, social work, and adoption in Vietnam. She is the author of Essential Trade: Vietnamese Women in a Changing Marketplace (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014) and co-editor of Neoliberalism in Vietnam (special issue of positions: asia critique, 2012) and Re-Orienting Fashion: The Globalization of Asian Dress (Berg, 2003). She is also the co-editor of the forthcoming collection, Traders in Motion: Identities and Contestations in the Vietnamese Marketplace.