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Service economies : militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea
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Service economies : militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea / Jin-kyung Lee.
ISBN
9780816651252 (hc : alk. paper)
0816651256 (hc : alk. paper)
9780816651269 (pb : alk. paper)
0816651264 (pb : alk. paper)
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Physical Description
viii, 305 p. ; 23 cm.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 11, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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