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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Lee, Jin-kyung (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.