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

• Autore: Nguyen-Vo Thu-Huong <1962->
• Pubblicazione: Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.7409597
• Soggetto topico: Prostitution - Vietnam; Prostitution - Government policy - Vietnam
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The ironies of freedom
• ISBN: 0-295-98921-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780915303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies.