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This study focuses on the female virginity and sexual violence in contemporary Vietnamese female novels. Today, many Vietnamese female writers have denounced the violence against young women’s bodies—expressed through sexual abuse and repeated abortions in their work. Additionally, they demonstrate a desire to express themselves and the voice of bodies. As a consequence, literature, particularly women’s literature, reflects both the desire to reveal hidden aspects of personal life and the thinking of resistance to the patriarchal society that still reigns in Vietnamese present life.