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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Jin-kyung.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Militarism--Korea (South).

Militarism.

Service industries--Korea (South).

Service industries.

Sex industry--Korea (South).

Sex industry.

Korea (South)--Economic policy.

Korea (South).

Korea (South)--Foreign relations--United States.

United States--Foreign relations--Korea (South).

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (316 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 ""

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-7518-X

OCLC:

698111711