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Autore: | Lee Jin-kyung |
Titolo: | Service economies : militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea / / Jin-kyung Lee |
Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.4/4095195 |
Soggetto topico: | Militarism - Korea (South) |
Service industries - Korea (South) | |
Sex-oriented businesses - Korea (South) | |
Soggetto geografico: | Korea (South) Economic policy |
Korea (South) Foreign relations United States | |
United States Foreign relations Korea (South) | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 "" |
Titolo autorizzato: | Service economies |
ISBN: | 0-8166-7518-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910817712203321 |
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