Publisher: Columbia University PressLanguage: English
ISBN: 0231106432
Paperback: 336 pages
Data: April 15, 1997
Format: PDF
Description: The U.S.Korea Review
Drawing on a vast array of dataarchival materials, interviews with officials, social workers, and the candid revelations of sex industry workersMoon explores the way in which the bodies of Korean prostituteswhere, when, and how they worked and livedwere used by the US and the Korean governments in their security agreements. . . .marginalized and made invisible in militarily dependent societies.
J. Ann Tickner
In a carefully researched study of U.S. military prostitution in Korea, Moon validates Cynthia Enloe's claim that the personal is international. These moving stories tell how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as nearly invisible instruments of U.S.-Korean military policies at the highest level. Moon's innovative case study demonstrates how a Cold War alliance was maintained at the price of these women's personal insecurity and challenges us to reconsider the human costs of international security policies.