The ironies of freedom

The ironies of freedom sex, culture, and neoliberal governance in Vietnam
Thu-Huong Nguyen-Vo,
Publisher: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.
ISBN: 0295988509   ISBN13: 9780295988504   DDC: 306.7409597   LCC: HQ242.5   Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)

Notes:

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 --
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.

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Dewey Class: 306.7409597 -- Culture & institutions
LCC Number: HQ242.5

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Language: eng
Physical Description: xxviii, 336 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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