Prostitute Bodies and Gendered States in U.S.-Korea Relations

Since the early 1980s, academics and activists have defined and analyzed military prostitution as an international system of political and economic domination, both of women and weaker nations. ¹ The power disparities between nations, or governments, have been transferred onto women's bodies, namely that the women of the weaker state represent, through their prostituted bodies, the dominated and controlled position of the weaker state.