The ironies of freedom sex, culture, and neoliberal governance in Vietnam /

Main Author: Nguyen-Vo, Thu-Huong, 1962-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.
Series:Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10276716
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • What kind of power? specialization of intervention and coexisting modes of governance
  • To the real: ideology and cultural production
  • From Antigone to the kneeling woman: a genealogy of the real from socialism to the preparation for marketization
  • Love in the time of neoliberalism: ideology and the new social realism in popular culture.