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

Author
Lee, Jin-kyung.
Title
Service economies : militarism, sex work, and migrant labor in South Korea / Jin-kyung Lee.
Format
Book
Published
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
Description
viii, 305 p. ; 23 cm.
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Kinsey subjects
Prostitution--Korea (South). Prostitution history--Korea (South). Prostitution research--Korea (South). Military--Korea (South). Sex behavior in the military--Korea (South).
ISBN
9780816651252 (hc : alk. paper) 0816651256 (hc : alk. paper) 9780816651269 (pb : alk. paper) 0816651264 (pb : alk. paper)

Holdings

Library
Blmgtn - Kinsey Institute Library (by appointment only)
Call Number
385.9 L44 s4 2010
Location
Auxiliary Library Facility - Kinsey Institute