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

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lee, Jin-kyung (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.