{"product_id":"the-managed-hand-race-gender-and-the-body-in-beauty-service-work-hardcover","title":"The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiliann Kang\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Managed Hand\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a must read for women's studies and sociology classes on labor, migration and gender as it provides its readers a rich and theoretically engaging discussion on feminine culture, the intersections of race, class, gender and migrant women's labor.--Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Brown University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Managed Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, Miliann Kang makes a significant contribution to the existing literature on Asian-American women, gender relations, service workers, beauty and the body. Based on fieldwork in nail salons, Kang reveals the social and emotional negotiations between and amongst women in that setting. We will never look at fingernails and what they tell us about ourselves in the same way again!--Rebecca King-O'Riain, author of \u003ci\u003ePure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI enjoyed reading Kang's work so much that I felt disappointed when I finished. The book is a wonderful example of what sociology does best--i.e., skillfully examining a relatively small site of interest, such that the analysis speaks not only to matters of individual experience and identity, but also to those of broader social and cultural processes and structures.--Debra L. Gimlin, author of \u003ci\u003eBody Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow did manicured nails become such ubiquitous symbols of feminine status? In this innovative and compelling ethnography, Kang unravels the many social consequences of the polished nail, bringing together insights from care work, ethnic enclave entrepreneurship, and gender and migration scholarship to illuminate the growing sector of body labor. All those who would dismiss manicured nails as socially irrelevant should read this book!--Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of \u003ci\u003eDomestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is a must read for women's studies and sociology classes on labor, migration and gender as it provides its readers a rich and theoretically engaging discussion on feminine culture, the intersections of race, class, gender and migrant women's labor.--Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Brown University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Managed Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, Miliann Kang makes a significant contribution to the existing literature on Asian-American women, gender relations, service workers, beauty and the body. Based on fieldwork in nail salons, Kang reveals the social and emotional negotiations between and amongst women in that setting. We will never look at fingernails and what they tell us about ourselves in the same way again!\"--Rebecca King-O'Riain, author of \u003ci\u003ePure Beauty: Judging Race in Japanese American Beauty Pageants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I enjoyed reading Kang's work so much that I felt disappointed when I finished. The book is a wonderful example of what sociology does best--i.e., skillfully examining a relatively small site of interest, such that the analysis speaks not only to matters of individual experience and identity, but also to those of broader social and cultural processes and structures.\"--Debra L. Gimlin, author of \u003ci\u003eBody Work: Beauty and Self-Image in American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"How did manicured nails become such ubiquitous symbols of feminine status? In this innovative and compelling ethnography, Kang unravels the many social consequences of the polished nail, bringing together insights from care work, ethnic enclave entrepreneurship, and gender and migration scholarship to illuminate the growing sector of body labor. All those who would dismiss manicured nails as socially irrelevant should read this book!\"--Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, author of \u003ci\u003eDomestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMiliann Kang\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and affiliated faculty in Sociology and Asian\/Asian American Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 02, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47508866367709,"sku":"9780520262584","price":184.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/JpX8cqtxIx9780520262584.webp?v=1772104421","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-managed-hand-race-gender-and-the-body-in-beauty-service-work-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}