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Author Kang, Miliann.

Title The managed hand [electronic resource] : race, gender, and the body in beauty service work / Miliann Kang.

Imprint Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xv, 309 p. : ill.
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?.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States.
Korean American women -- Employment -- United States.
Women foreign workers -- United States.
Asian Americans -- Social conditions.
United States -- Race relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780520262584 (cloth alk. paper)
9780520262607 (pbk. alk. paper)
9780520945654 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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