[KS] (New Release) The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea

[GW Institute for Korean Studies, GW Institute for Korean Studies]

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to share that Fulbright Visiting Scholar to the George
Washington University (January 2024-January 2025)  Jeong-mi Park has
released her book "The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial
Nation Building in South Korea."

Please see below for a short abstract:







*The State’s Sexuality uncovers how the work and lives of women engaged in
prostitution, longconsidered the most abased members of society, have been
strategically intertwined with thelofty purpose of building South Korea’s
postcolonial nation-state. Through a complicated,contradictory patchwork of
laws and regulations, which Park Jeong-Mi conceptualizes as
a“toleration-regulation regime,” the South Korean state not merely excluded
sex workers fromordinary 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.*
To learn more please visit:
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520396463/the-states-sexuality

We appreciate your interest!

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GWIKS


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