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Informationen zum Autor Nguyen-vo Thu-Huong is associate professor of Asian languages and cultures and Asian American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Klappentext Nguyen-vo Thu-Huong is associate professor of Asian languages and cultures and Asian American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Zusammenfassung A bold look at Vietnam's privatized commercial sex market! conflicts surrounding modern prostitution in Vietnam! and the government's efforts to manage the industry. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part One | Sex for Sale: Entrepreneurial and Consumerist Freedom 1. The Hooking Economy: Entrepreneurial Choice and Commercial Sex in the Liberalizing Economy 2. Hierarchy and Geography: Class and National Identity in Sex Consumption Part Two | The Real and the True: Governing by Choice and Coercion 3. The Rise of the Empirical and the Case of Medical Expertise: A Genealogy of Governance 4. Governing Passion: Consumers' Choice and the Production of a Differentiated Citizenry in Public Medicine 5. Who You Truly Are: Coercion, Culture, and the Global Imaginary in the Governmental Rehabilitation of Sex Workers 6. What Kind of Power? Specialization of Intervention and the Coexisting Modes of Governance Part Three | To the Real: Ideology and Cultural Production 7. From Antigone to the Kneeling Woman: A Genealogy of the Real from Socialism to the Preparation for Marketization 8. Love in the Time of Neoliberalism: Ideology and the New Social Realism in Popular Culture Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
