TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kang,Miliann
TI  - The managed hand: race, gender, and the body in beauty service work 
SN  - 9780520945654
AV  - TT958 .K36 2010eb
U1  - 391.6 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Beauty culture
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Korean American women
KW  - Employment
KW  - Manicuring
KW  - Nail art (Manicuring)
KW  - Women foreign workers
KW  - Asian Americans
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Américaines d'origine coréenne
KW  - Travail
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Manucure
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Art des ongles
KW  - Travailleuses étrangères
KW  - Américains d'origine asiatique
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - HEALTH & FITNESS
KW  - Beauty & Grooming
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Emigration & Immigration
KW  - fast
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Schoonheidsideaal
KW  - gtt
KW  - Vrouwen
KW  - Immigranten
KW  - Verzorgende beroepen
KW  - Rassenverhoudingen
KW  - Skönhetsvård
KW  - sociala aspekter
KW  - Förenta staterna
KW  - sao
KW  - Invandrarkvinnor
KW  - arbete och arbetsmarknad
KW  - Rasrelationer
KW  - Förenta Staterna
KW  - Relations raciales
KW  - Azië
KW  - Verenigde Staten
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2011
N2  - 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
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