The managed hand
Subtitle: race, gender, and the body in beauty service work
By: Miliann Kang.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520262584; 9780520262607
Subjects: Beauty culture -- Social aspects -- United States; Korean American women -- Employment -- United States; Women immigrants -- Employment -- United States; Asian Americans -- Social conditions; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: manicuring work; title: "There's no business like the nail business"; title: "What other work is there?": manicurists; title: Hooked on nails: customers; title: "I just put Koreans and nails together": nail spas and the model minority; title: Black people "have not been the ones who get pampered": nail art salons and black-Korean relations; title: "You could get a fungus": Asian discount nail salons as the new yellow peril; title: Conclusion: what is a manicure worth?