<div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">Dear Colleagues,</font><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">We are pleased to share that <span style="font-size:13.3333px">Fulbright Visiting Scholar to the George Washington University (January 2024-January 2025)  Jeong-mi Park has released her book "</span>The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea."</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Please see below for a short abstract:</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><i>The State’s Sexuality uncovers how the work and lives of women engaged in prostitution, long<br>considered the most abased members of society, have been strategically intertwined with the<br>lofty purpose of building South Korea’s postcolonial nation-state. Through a complicated,<br>contradictory patchwork of laws and regulations, which Park Jeong-Mi conceptualizes as a<br>“toleration-regulation regime,” the South Korean state not merely excluded sex workers from<br>ordinary citizenship; it also mobilized them for national security, national development, and the making of a gendered citizenry. In the process, the newly independent state was constructed, augmented, and consolidated. Sex workers often protested such draconian policies and sometimes utilized state apparatuses to get recognition as citizens. Based on expansive, meticulous archival research, and sophisticated interpretation of historical records and women’s voices, Park Jeong-Mi entirely rewrites the dynamic history of South Korea from 1945 to the present, through the lens of prostitution.<br></i><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">To learn more please visit: <a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396463/the-states-sexuality" target="_blank" style="font-size:13.3333px">https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396463/the-states-sexuality</a></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">We appreciate your interest! </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Best,</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">GWIKS </font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"> <br clear="all"></font><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color:transparent;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-collapse:collapse;border-spacing:0px;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-family:AvenirLTStd-Roman,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><td valign="top" style="padding:3px 20px 20px 0px;line-height:1.42857;vertical-align:top;border-top:none"><img alt="George Washington University Logo" src="https://www.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2226/f/downloads/gw_monogram_2c_process_110.jpg" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;max-width:100%;height:auto;width:110px"></td><td style="padding:0px">   </td><td valign="top" style="padding:0px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(3,60,90);font-size:14px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold"><font face="arial black, sans-serif">GW Institute for Korean Studies (GWIKS)</font></span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><font color="#000000" face="Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14px">Elliott School of International Affairs</span></font><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin:0px;padding:0px">The George Washington University<br>1957 E Street NW, Suite 503, Washington, DC 20052</span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="color:rgb(0,115,170);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold">e</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px;margin:0px;padding:0px"> <a href="mailto:gwiks@gwu.edu" style="background:transparent;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:AvenirLTStd-Roman,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,115,170)" target="_blank">gwiks@gwu.edu</a><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px"></span></td></tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><td valign="top" style="padding:0px;line-height:1.42857;vertical-align:top;border-top:none"> </td><td style="padding:0px"> </td><td valign="top" style="padding:0px;line-height:9px"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;display:inline-f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