Description
Book SynopsisA compelling alternative narrative of the modern "miracle" of South Korea.
Trade Review"Examining South Korean history since 1945, Service Economies highlights the role of sexualized and gendered working-class labor as an occluded but crucial part of South Korean modernization. A truly interdisciplinary project, Jin-Kyung Lee’s ambitious, rigorous, and synthetic work intervenes into historical, political economic, and cultural studies scholarship on South Korea, transnational labor, gender and sexuality, and U.S. neo-colonialism." —Grace Hong, UCLA
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Proletarianizing Sexuality and Race
1. Surrogate Military, Subempire, and Masculinity: South Korea in the Vietnam War
2. Domestic Prostitution: From Necropolitics to Prosthetic Labor
3. Military Prostitution: Gynocentrism, Racial Hybridity and Diaspora
4. Migrant and Immigrant Labor: Redefining Korean Identity
Postscript: The Exceptional and the Normative in South Korean Modernization
Notes
Bibliography
Index
