About the author: Sophia Brown is a first-year graduate student in the Global Studies MA program.

About the piece: A Partial Deconstruction of the Patriarchal Logic which Structured US Policy Towards Prostitution in Korea in the Decades Following the Korean War

This essay unpacks US foreign policy in Korea, specifically related to prostitution, and explores the role of the US military in creating and perpetuating gendered and racialized hierarchies, through its exploitation of women's bodies.

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