Name: The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work (en Inglés)
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Author: Miliann Kang
ISBN: 9780520262584

portada The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Univ Of California Pr

Autor

Miliann Kang

Año

2010

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

275

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

9780520262584

ISBN13

9780520262584

N° edición

Categorías

Maquillaje, peluquería y belleza

The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work (en Inglés)

Miliann Kang (Autor) · Univ Of California Pr · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work (en Inglés)"

Two women, virtual strangers, sit hand-in-hand across a narrow table, both intent on the same thing-achieving the perfect manicure. Encounters like this occur thousands of times across the United States in nail salons increasingly owned and operated by Asian immigrants. This study looks closely for the first time at these intimate encounters, focusing on New York City, where such nail salons have become ubiquitous. Drawing from rich and compelling interviews, Miliann Kang takes us inside the nail industry, asking such questions as: Why have nail salons become so popular? Why do so many Asian women, and Korean women in particular, provide these services? Kang discovers multiple motivations for the manicure-from the pampering of white middle class women to the artistic self-expression of working class African American women to the mass consumption of body-related services. Contrary to notions of beauty service establishments as spaces for building community among women, The Managed Hand finds that while tentative and fragile solidarities can emerge across the manicure table, they generally give way to even more powerful divisions of race, class, and immigration.