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Author Nguyen-Vo, Thu-Huong, 1962-

Title The ironies of freedom : sex, culture, and neoliberal governance in Vietnam / Nguyeñ̂-võ Thu-hu'o'ng
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 336 pages)
Series Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies
Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-319) and index
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Subject Prostitution -- Vietnam
Prostitution -- Government policy -- Vietnam
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
Prostitution
Prostitution -- Government policy
Vietnam
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021694492
ISBN 9780295989211
0295989211