New PDF release: The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty

By Miliann Kang

ladies, digital strangers, sit down hand-in-hand throughout a slender desk, either cause at the comparable thing-achieving the proper nail cutting. Encounters like this ensue hundreds of thousands of instances around the usa in nail salons more and more owned and operated via Asian immigrants. This examine seems heavily for the 1st time at those intimate encounters, concentrating on ny urban, the place such nail salons became ubiquitous. Drawing from wealthy and compelling interviews, Miliann Kang takes us contained in the nail undefined, asking such questions as: Why have nail salons turn into so well known? Why achieve this many Asian ladies, and Korean ladies specifically, offer those companies? Kang discovers a number of motivations for the manicure-from the pampering of white heart type ladies to the inventive self-expression of operating classification African American ladies to the mass intake of body-related companies. opposite to notions of good looks carrier institutions as areas for development neighborhood between girls, The controlled Hand reveals that whereas tentative and fragile solidarities can emerge around the nail filing desk, they often cave in to much more robust divisions of race, type, and immigration.

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