Service economies
Subtitle: militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea
By: Jin-kyung Lee.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780816651252; 9780816651269
Subjects: Service industries -- Korea (South); Sex-oriented businesses -- Korea (South); Militarism -- Korea (South); Korea (South) -- Economic policy; Korea (South) -- Foreign relations -- United States; United States -- Foreign relations -- Korea (South)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : proletarianizing sexuality and race; title: Surrogate military, subempire, and masculinity : South Korea in the Vietnam war; title: Domestic prostitution : from necropolitics to prosthetic labor; title: Military prostitution : gynocentrism, racial hybridity, and diaspora; title: Migrant and immigrant labor : redefining Korean identity; title: Postscript : the exceptional and the normative in South Korean modernization.