Service Economies: Militarism, Sex Work and Migrant Labor in South Korea

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Service Economies examines 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. Foregrounding gender, sexuality, and race, Jin-kyung Lee reimagines the South Korean economic ‘miracle’ as a global and regional articulation of industrial, military, and sexual proletarianization. Contents 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 Select Bibliography Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y