Service economies : militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea / / Jin-kyung Lee

• Autore: Lee Jin-kyung
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (316 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.4/4095195
• Soggetto topico: Militarism - Korea (South); Service industries - Korea (South); Sex industry - 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.: 9910785687503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II