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Service economies : militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Jin-kyung
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Service industries > Korea (South)
Sex-oriented businesses > Korea (South)
Militarism > Korea (South)
Korea (South) > Economic policy.
Korea (South) > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Korea (South)
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : proletarianizing sexuality and race
  • Surrogate military, subempire, and masculinity : South Korea in the Vietnam war
  • Domestic prostitution : from necropolitics to prosthetic labor
  • Military prostitution : gynocentrism, racial hybridity, and diaspora
  • Migrant and immigrant labor : redefining Korean identity
  • Postscript : the exceptional and the normative in South Korean modernization.