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Autore |
Lim Shirley Jennifer <1968-> |
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Titolo |
A feeling of belonging : Asian American women's public culture, 1930-1960 / / Shirley Jennifer Lim |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2005 |
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New York, NY : , : New York University Press, , [2005] |
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2005 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Collana |
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American history and culture |
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Soggetti |
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Asian American women - Social life and customs - 20th century |
Asian Americans - Cultural assimilation - History - 20th century |
Young women - United States - Social life and customs - 20th century |
Single women - United States - Social life and customs - 20th century |
Leisure - United States - History - 20th century |
Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
United States Social life and customs 1918-1945 |
United States Social life and customs 1945-1970 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-230) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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A feeling of belonging : Chi Alpha Delta, 1928-1941 -- I protest : Anna May Wong and the performance of modernity -- Short-cut to glamour : popular culture in a consumer society -- Contested beauty : Asian American beauty culture during the Cold War -- Riding the crest of an Oriental wave : foreign-born Asian "beauty". |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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When we imagine the activities of Asian American women in the mid-twentieth century, our first thoughts are not of skiing, beauty pageants, magazine reading, and sororities. Yet, Shirley Jennifer Lim argues, these are precisely the sorts of leisure practices many second generation Chinese, Filipina, and Japanese American women engaged in during this time. In A Feeling of Belonging , Lim highlights the cultural activities of young, predominantly unmarried Asian American women |
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