The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work Book

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.Read More

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    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 at these intimate encounters focusing on New York City.

  • 0520262603
  • 9780520262607
  • M Kang
  • 15 June 2010
  • University of California Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 328
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