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Author:
Kang, Miliann.
Title:
The managed hand : race, gender, and the body in beauty service work / Miliann Kang.
Publisher:
University of California Press,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
xv, 309 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Beauty culture--Social aspects--United States.
Korean American women--Employment--United States.
Women immigrants--Employment--United States.
Asian Americans--Social conditions.
United States--Race relations.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: manicuring work -- "There's no business like the nail business" -- "What other work is there?": manicurists -- Hooked on nails: customers -- "I just put Koreans and nails together": nail spas and the model minority -- Black people "have not been the ones who get pampered": nail art salons and black-Korean relations -- "You could get a fungus": Asian discount nail salons as the new yellow peril -- Conclusion: what is a manicure worth?
ISBN:
0520262603 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780520262607 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0520262581 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780520262584 (cloth : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)435917950
LCCN:
2009035369
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

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