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UNINA9910790598203321 |
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Kang Miliann |
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The managed hand : race, gender, and the body in beauty service work / / Miliann Kang |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
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©2010 |
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1-280-09501-6 |
9786613520449 |
0-520-94565-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations |
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Asian Americans - Social conditions |
Asian Americans -- Social conditions |
Beauty culture - Social aspects - United States |
Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States |
Beauty shops - Social aspects - United States |
Beauty, Personal - Social aspects - United States |
Korean American women - Employment - United States |
Korean American women -- Employment -- United States |
Manicuring - Social aspects - United States |
United States - Race relations |
United States -- Race relations |
Women immigrants - Employment - United States |
Women immigrants -- Employment -- United States |
Nail art (Manicuring) - Social aspects - United States |
Art, Architecture & Applied Arts |
Arts & Crafts |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- One. "There's No Business Like the Nail Business" -- Two. "What Other Work Is There?" -- Three. Hooked on Nails -- Four. "I |
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Just Put Koreans and Nails Together" -- Five. Black People "Have Not Been the Ones Who Get Pampered" -- Six. "You Could Get a Fungus" -- Conclusion. What is a man I cure worth? -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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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 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. |
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UNINA9910787170203321 |
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Belonging in Oceania : movement, place-making and multiple identifications / / edited by Elfriede Hermann, Wolfgang Kempf and Toon van Meijl ; Agnes Brandt [and nine others], contributors |
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New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Pacific Perspectives ; ; Volume 3 |
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Ethnology - Oceania |
Group identity - Oceania |
Intergroup relations - Oceania |
Belonging (Social psychology) - Oceania |
Place (Philosophy) |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Belonging in Oceania; Pacific Perspectives; Belonging in Oceania - Movement, Place-Making and Multiple Identifications - Edited by Elfriede Hermann, Wolfgang Kempf and Toon van Meijl; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction - Movement, Place-making and Cultural Identification - Multiplicities of Belonging - Wolfgang Kempf, Toon van Meijl and Elfriede Hermann; 1 Culture as Experience - Constructing Identities through Transpacific Encounters - Eveline Dürr; 2 'Forty-plus Different Tribes' Displacement, Place-making and Aboriginal Tribal Names on Palm Island, Australia - Lise Garond |
3 Coconuts and the Landscape of Underdevelopment on Panapompom, Papua New Guinea - Will Rollason4 Invisible Villages in the City - Niuean Constructions of Place and Identity in Auckland - Hilke Thode-Arora; 5 Migration and Identity - Cook Islanders' Relation to Land - Arno Pascht; 6 Protestantism among Pacific Peoples in New Zealand - Mobility, Cultural Identifications and Generational Shifts - Yannick Fer and Gwendoline Malogne-Fer; 7 Identity and Belonging in Cross- |
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cultural Friendship - Māori and Pākehā Experiences - Agnes Brandt |
Epilogue - Uncertain Futures of Belonging Consequences of Climate Change and Sea-level Rise in Oceania - Wolfgang Kempf and Elfriede HermannNotes on Contributors; Index |
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Ethnographic case studies explore what it means to ""belong"" in Oceania, as contributors consider ongoing formations of place, self and community in connection with travelling, internal and international migration. The chapters apply the multi-dimensional concepts of movement, place-making and cultural identifications to explain contemporary life in Oceanic societies. The volume closes by suggesting that constructions of multiple belongings-and, with these, the relevant forms of mobility, place-making and identifications-are being recontextualized and modified by emerging discourses of clima |
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