The Managed Hand : Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work /

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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kang, Miliann (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2010]
Temas:
Asian Americans > Social conditions.
Beauty culture > Social aspects > United States.
Korean American women > Employment > United States.
Manicuring > Social aspects > United States.
Nail art (Manicuring) > Social aspects > United States.
Women foreign workers > United States.
Women immigrants > Employment > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration.
african american women.
art.
asian american.
asian immigrants.
asian women.
beauty service work.
body services.
body.
class differences.
consumption.
divisions of race.
ethnography.
gender issues.
gender.
immigrant workers.
interviews.
korean women.
manicures.
nail industry.
nail salons.
new york city.
nonfiction.
pampering.
race issues.
self care.
self expression.
service careers.
social science.
united states.
white middle class women.
women.
working class.
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