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Author Nguyen-Vo, Thu-Huong, 1962-

Title The ironies of freedom [electronic resource] : sex, culture, and neoliberal governance in Vietnam / Nguyen-vo Thu-hu'o'ng.

Imprint Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.

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Description xxviii, 336 p. : ill.
Series Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies
Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-319) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Prostitution -- Vietnam.
Prostitution -- Government policy -- Vietnam.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780295988658 (hardback : alk. paper)
0295988657 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780295988504 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0295988509 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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