Service economies : militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea /

Service economies : militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea /

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Author / Creator:	Lee, Jin-kyung.
Imprint:	Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Description:	viii, 305 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Service industries -- Korea (South) Sex oriented businesses -- Korea (South) Militarism -- Korea (South) Economic policy. Diplomatic relations. Militarism. Service industries. Sex-oriented businesses. Korea (South) -- Economic policy. Korea (South) -- Foreign relations -- United States. United States -- Foreign relations -- Korea (South) Korea (South) United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8267206

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ISBN:	9780816651252 (hc : alk. paper) 0816651256 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816651269 (pb : alk. paper) 0816651264 (pb : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

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.