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UNINA9910785687503321 |
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Autore |
Lee Jin-kyung |
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Titolo |
Service economies : militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea / / Jin-kyung Lee |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (316 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Militarism - Korea (South) |
Service industries - Korea (South) |
Sex industry - Korea (South) |
Korea (South) Economic policy |
Korea (South) Foreign relations United States |
United States Foreign relations Korea (South) |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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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 connections, Jin-kyung Lee analyzes South Korean military labor in the Vietnam War, domestic female sex workers, South Korean prostitution for U.S. troops, and immigrant/migrant labor from Asia in contemporary South Korea. Foregrounding gender, sexuality, and race, Lee reimagines the South Korean economic "" |
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