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Author Nguyen-Vo, Thu-Huong, 1962-

Title The ironies of freedom : sex, culture, and neoliberal governance in Vietnam / Nguyen̂̃-võ Thu-hu'o'ng.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 336 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies
Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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.
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Subject Prostitution -- Vietnam.
Prostitution.
Vietnam.
Prostitution -- Government policy -- Vietnam.
Prostitution -- Government policy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Female prostitution.
Prostitution.
ISBN 9780295989211 electronic book
0295989211 electronic book
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