Screen LibraryThe ironies of freedom：sex, culture, and neoliberal governance in Vietnam
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University of Washington Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Seattle |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies |
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| Carrier Form: | xxviii, 336 p.: ill. ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780295988658 (hardback : alk. paper) 0295988657 (hardback : alk. paper) 9780295988504 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0295988509 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | D733 |
| CLC: | D733.388 |
| Call Number: | D733.388/N576 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-319) and index. Sex for sale: entrepreneurial and consumerist freedom -- The hooking economy: entrepreneurial choice and commercial sex in the liberalizing economy -- Hierarchy and geography: class and national identity in sex consumption -- The real and the true: governing by choice and coercion -- The rise of the empirical and the case of medical expertise: a genealogy of governance -- Governing passion: consumers' choice and the production of a differentiated citizenry in public medicine -- Who you truly are: coercion, culture, and the global imaginary in the governmental rehabilitation of sex workers -- |