Sex Among Allies: Military Prostitution in U.S.-Korea Relations / Edition 1

by Katharine Moon

Overview

This study examines and illuminates how the lives of Korean prostitutes in the 1970s served as the invisible underpinnings to US-Korean military policies at the highest level.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231106436
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	09/11/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.91(w) x 8.97(h) x 0.54(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Katherine H. S. Moon is assistant professor of political science at Wellesley College.

What People are Saying About This

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.

Editorial Reviews

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.

J. Ann Tickner

Drawing on a vast array of data­­archival materials, interviews with officials, social workers, and the candid revelations of sex industry workers -Moon explores the way in which the bodies of Korean prostitutes -where, when, and how they worked and lived -were used by the US and the Korean governments in their security agreements. . . .marginalized and made invisible in militarily dependent societies.

U.S.Korea Review