The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work by Miliann Kang

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

Miliann Kang

328 pages 2010

4 editions

nonfiction feminism race sociology challenging informative slow-paced
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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 operat...

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