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



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Autore: Kang Miliann Visualizza persona
Titolo: The managed hand : race, gender, and the body in beauty service work / / Miliann Kang Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010]
©2010
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina: 391.6
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto non controllato: 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
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: 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 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: The managed hand  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-09501-6
9786613520449
0-520-94565-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824217303321
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