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

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Service Economies presents an alternative narrative of South Korean modernity by examining how working-class labor occupies a central space in linking the United States and Asia to South Korea's changing global position from a U.S. neocolony to a subempire. Making surprising and revelatory conn...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lee, Jin-kyung (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Service industries > Korea (South)
Sex industry > Korea (South)
Militarism > Korea (South)
Services (Industrie) > Corée du Sud.
Industrie pornographique > Corée du Sud.
Militarisme > Corée du Sud.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Asian > General.
Economic policy
Diplomatic relations
Militarism
Service industries
Sex industry
Korea (South) > Economic policy.
Korea (South) > Foreign relations > United States.
United States > Foreign relations > Korea (South)
Corée du Sud > Politique économique.
Corée du Sud > Relations extérieures > États-Unis.
États-Unis > Relations extérieures > Corée du Sud.
Corée du Sud > Relations extérieures.
Korea (South)
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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