The ironies of freedom
Subtitle: sex, culture, and neoliberal governance in Vietnam
By: Thu-huong Nguyen-võ.
Series: Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Seattle
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780295988658; 9780295988504
Subjects: Prostitution -- Vietnam; Prostitution -- Government policy -- Vietnam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sex for sale: entrepreneurial and consumerist freedom; title: The hooking economy: entrepreneurial choice and commercial sex in the liberalizing economy; title: Hierarchy and geography: class and national identity in sex consumption; title: The real and the true: governing by choice and coercion; title: The rise of the empirical and the case of medical expertise: a genealogy of governance; title: Governing passion: consumers' choice and the production of a differentiated citizenry in public medicine; title: Who you truly are: coercion, culture, and the global imaginary in the governmental rehabilitation of sex workers; title: What kind of power? specialization of intervention and coexisting modes of governance; title: To the real: ideology and cultural production; title: From Antigone to the kneeling woman: a genealogy of the real from socialism to the preparation for marketization; title: Love in the time of neoliberalism: ideology and the new social realism in popular culture.