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

Title
  1. Service economies : militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea / Jin-kyung Lee.
Published by
  1. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Author
  1. Lee, Jin-kyung.

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Description
  1. viii, 305 p.; 23 cm.
Subject
  1. Korea (South) > Economic policy
  2. Korea (South) > Foreign relations > United States
  3. Militarism > Korea (South)
  4. Service industries > Korea (South)
  5. Sex-oriented businesses > Korea (South)
  6. United States > Foreign relations > Korea (South)
Contents
  1. 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.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.