Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo

The Ironies of Freedom

Sex, Culture, and Neoliberal Governance in Vietnam

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Nguyen-vo Thu-Huong is associate professor of Asian languages and cultures and Asian American studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780295988504
• ISBN-10: 0295988509
• Artikelnr.: 23605209

Autorenporträt

Thu-huong Nguyen-vo

Inhaltsangabe

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