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Between its reunification in 1975 and renovation beginning in 1986 when Vietnam opened to a free market economy, the socialist government actually succeeded in reducing prostitution from its all-time, wartime high estimated at 500,000 at the close of the Vietnam War to 10,000 nationwide prior to 1986.1 From 1975 to 1985 some prostitution, particularly in Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon) and on the nearby coast, persisted, mostly for visiting businessmen and diplomats. Nevertheless, by closing market exchange which provides leisure cash income and by adopting prohibitionist law and opening ‘re-education centres’ for prostitutes, Vietnam reversed the trend of its neighbouring Asian countries such as Thailand and the Philippines, where prostitution, under economic development through tourism, became a fact of their industrialization.
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Le Thi Quy, ‘Social Policy on Prevention and Restriction of Prostitution in Vietnam’, Paper presented at the conference, ‘Women Empowering Women’, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women — Asia, Manilla, April, 1993.
Le Thi Quy, ‘Social Policy on Prevention and Restriction of Prostitution in Vietnam’, Paper delivered at the conference, ‘Women Empowering Women’, Manilla, April, 1993.
Kathleen Barry, Prostitution of Sexuality, New York University Press, 1995.
Nguyen Du, The Tale of Kieu, translated by Huynh Sanh Thong, New Haven: Yale University Press, Introduction, p. xx.
Insight Guides: Vietnam, editor, Helen West, Singapore: Hofer Press, 1992, p. 134.
Ibid., p. 134.
Neil Jameison, Understanding Vietnam, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993, pp. 17, 22, 25–27.
Hayslip, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, New York: Doubleday, 1989, p. 224.
Barbara Franklin, ‘The Risk of AIDS in Vietnam’, CARE International in Vietnam, Monograph, No. 1, 1993, p. 4, note 3.
Ibid., p. 36.
Ibid., pp. 36–7.
Timothy Gilfoyle, City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790–1920, New York: Norton, 1992, p. 287.
Mojdara Mattani Rutnin, ‘Prostitution and the Economic Empowerment of Women in Thailand: A Case Study of Alternatives in Chien Mai Village in Northern Thailand’, Paper Presented at the AWID Conference, Washington, D.C., 1989.
See ‘Convention Against Sexual Exploitation’, in Barry, Prostitution of Sexuality, 1995.
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Barry, K. (1996). Industrialization and Economic Development: The Costs to Women. In: Barry, K. (eds) Vietnam’s Women in Transition. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24611-3_10
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