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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Fashion and beauty in the time of Asia. New York : New York University Press, [2019] (DLC) 2018030567 (OCoLC)1044768869 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
S Heijin Lee; Christina H Moon; Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu |
ISBN: | 9781479861736 1479861731 |
OCLC Number: | 1096185350 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | Intro; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; 1. White Like Koreans: The Skin of the New Vietnam; 2. China: Through the Looking Glass: Race, Property, and the Possessive Investment in White Feelings; 3. Beauty between Empires: Global Feminisms, Plastic Surgery, and the Trouble with Self-Esteem; 4. Beauty Regimens, Beauty Regimes: Korean Beauty on YouTube; 5. Fashioning the Field in Vietnam: An Intersectional Tale of Clothing, Femininities, and the Pedagogy of Appropriateness 6. Splitting the Seams: Transnational Feminism and the Manila-Toronto Production of Filipino Couture7. Manicures as Transnational Body Labor; 8. "Little Freedoms": Immigrant Labor and the Politics of "Fast Fashion" after Rana Plaza; 9. Cartographic Imaginaries of Fast Fashion in Guangzhou, China; 10. Times, Tempos, and the Rhythm of Fast Fashion in Los Angeles and Seoul; Acknowledgments; About the Contributors; Index |
Series Title: | NYU series in social and cultural analysis. |
Responsibility: | edited by S. Heijin Lee, Christina H. Moon, and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu. |
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As Asia becomes increasingly central to the global fashion system, books like Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia become ever more important. -- Dr. Valerie Steele, Director, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia is razor sharp in its framework and rigorous in its analysis. Eschewing tropes about the Asian continent and its oblique relationship to Western industries, the book maps new transnational circuits of exchange and offers readers fresh language to explain modernity, geopolitics, economics, and global taste cultures. It is so refreshing to read scholarship that takes fashion and beauty seriously. -- Tanisha C. Ford, author of <i>Dressed in Dreams: A Black Girl's Love Letter to the Power of Fashion</i> Read more...

