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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780915303321

Autore

Nguyen-Vo Thu-Huong <1962->

Titolo

The ironies of freedom [[electronic resource] ] : sex, culture, and neoliberal governance in Vietnam / / Nguyeñ̂-võ Thu-hu'o'ng

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2008

ISBN

0-295-98921-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (366 p.)

Collana

Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies

Disciplina

306.7409597

Soggetti

Prostitution - Vietnam

Prostitution - Government policy - Vietnam

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-319) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Sex for sale: entrepreneurial and consumerist freedom -- The hooking economy: entrepreneurial choice and commercial sex in the liberalizing economy -- Hierarchy and geography: class and national identity in sex consumption -- The real and the true: governing by choice and coercion -- The rise of the empirical and the case of medical expertise: a genealogy of governance -- Governing passion: consumers' choice and the production of a differentiated citizenry in public medicine -- Who you truly are: coercion, culture, and the global imaginary in the governmental rehabilitation of sex workers -- What kind of power? specialization of intervention and coexisting modes of governance -- To the real: ideology and cultural production -- From Antigone to the kneeling woman: a genealogy of the real from socialism to the preparation for marketization -- Love in the time of neoliberalism: ideology and the new social realism in popular culture.