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1 online resource (xv, 309 pages) : illustrations |
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text file PDF |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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? |
| Summary |
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. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Beauty culture. |
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Social aspects. |
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United States. |
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Korean American women -- Employment -- United States.
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Korean American women -- Employment. |
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Korean American women. |
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Manicuring -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Manicuring. |
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Nail art (Manicuring) -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Nail art (Manicuring) |
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Women foreign workers -- United States.
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Women foreign workers. |
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Asian Americans -- Social conditions.
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Asian Americans -- Social conditions. |
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United States -- Race relations.
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Race relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Kang, Miliann. Managed hand. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2009035369 |
| ISBN |
9780520945654 (e-book) |
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0520945654 (e-book) |
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0520262581 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9780520262584 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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0520262603 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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9780520262607 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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1280095016 |
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9781280095016 |
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9786613520449 |
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6613520446 |
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9780520262584 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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9780520262607 (paperback alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1525/9780520945654 |
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