02977nam 2200637Ia 450 991046024670332120200520144314.00-8166-7518-X(CKB)2670000000069685(EBL)635544(OCoLC)698111711(SSID)ssj0000473065(PQKBManifestationID)11291268(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000473065(PQKBWorkID)10435826(PQKB)10549486(MiAaPQ)EBC635544(MdBmJHUP)muse29824(Au-PeEL)EBL635544(CaPaEBR)ebr10440592(CaONFJC)MIL525902(EXLCZ)99267000000006968520100128d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrService economies[electronic resource] militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea /Jin-kyung LeeMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20101 online resource (316 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-5126-4 0-8166-5125-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 ""MilitarismKorea (South)Service industriesKorea (South)Sex-oriented businessesKorea (South)Korea (South)Economic policyKorea (South)Foreign relationsUnited StatesUnited StatesForeign relationsKorea (South)Electronic books.MilitarismService industriesSex-oriented businesses363.4/4095195Lee Jin-kyung927976MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910460246703321Service economies2084772UNINA