The managed hand [electronic resource] : race, gender, and the body in beauty service work / Miliann Kang.
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BookPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2010.Description: xv, 309 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification: - 391.6 22
- TT958 .K36 2010eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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