Dealing in Desire

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ISBN: 9780520275577
作者: Kimberly Kay Hoang
出版社: University of California Press
發行時間: 2015 -2
裝訂: Paperback
價格: USD 29.95
頁數: 248

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Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work

Kimberly Kay Hoang   

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This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam’s sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage. Over the course of five years, author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele: wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen, Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese living abroad), Western businessmen, and Western budget-tourists. Dealing in Desire takes an in-depth and often personal look at both the sex workers and their clients to show how Vietnamese high finance and benevolent giving are connected to the intimate spheres of the informal economy. For the domestic super-elite who use the levers of political power to channel foreign capital into real estate and manufacturing projects, conspicuous consumption is a means of projecting an image of Asian ascendancy to potential investors. For Viet Kieus and Westerners who bring remittances into the local economy, personal relationships with local sex workers reinforce their ideas of Asia’s rise and Western decline, while simultaneously bolstering their diminished masculinity. Dealing in Desire illuminates Ho Chi Minh City’s sex industry as not just a microcosm of the global economy, but a critical space where dreams and deals are traded.

contents

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Dealing in Desire 1
1 Sex Work in HCMC, 1867–Present 26
2 The Contemporary Sex Industry 39
3 New Hierarchies of Global Men 53
4 Entrepreneurial Mommies 78
5 Autonomy and Consent in Sex Work 104
6 Constructing Desirable Bodies 126
7 Sex Workers’ Economic Trajectories 154
Conclusion: Faltering Ascent 173
Appendix: The Empirical Puzzle and
the Embodied Cost of Ethnography 181
Notes 197
Bibliography 209
Index 223

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