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The managed hand race, gender, and the body in beauty service work /

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Autore principale: Kang, Miliann
Ente Autore: ebrary, Inc
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:inglese
Pubblicazione: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.
Soggetti:
Beauty culture > Social aspects > United States.
Korean American women > Employment > United States.
Women foreign workers > United States.
Asian Americans > Social conditions.
United States > Race relations.
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Sommario:
  • 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?.

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