Fashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia (eBook)

S. Heijin Lee, Christina H. Moon, Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu (Herausgeber)

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2019
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-1-4798-0227-2 (ISBN)

Infos

How transnational modernity is taking shape in and in relation to AsiaFashion and Beauty in the Time of Asia considers the role of bodily aesthetics in the shaping of Asian modernities and the formation of the so-called Asian Century. S. Heijin Lee, Christina H. Moon, and Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu train our eyes on sites as far-flung, varied, and intimate as Guangzhou and Los Angeles, Saigon and Seoul, New York and Toronto. They map the transregional connections, ever-evolving aspirations and sensibilities, and new worlds and life paths forged through engagements with fashion and beauty.Contributors consider American influence on plastic surgery in Korea, Vietnamese debates about the fashionable, and the costs and commitments demanded of those who make and wear fast fashion, from Chinese garment workers to Nepalese nail technicians in New York who are mandated to dress "e;fashionably."e; In doing so, this interdisciplinary anthology moves beyond common characterizations of Asians and the Asian diaspora as simply abject laborers or frenzied consumers, analyzing who the modern Asian subject is now: what they wear and how they work, move, eat, and shop.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.6.2019
• Reihe/Serie: NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis
• Reihe/Serie: NYU Series in Social and Cultural Analysis
• Zusatzinfo: 15 black and white illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Asian Century • Asian labor • Asian workers • body labor • China • consumer • Consumers • Cosmetics • Creativity • custom fit • deprofessionalized • Development • Diaspora • Displacement • ethnography • Fast Fashion • fast-fashion families • femininity • Feminism • Global capitalism • global commodity chains • global feminism • Globalization • global north • global South • Ho Chi Minh City • jezebel • Korea • Korean pop culture • little freedoms • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Migration • Modernity • nail salon • nail salons • Neoliberalism • Nepal • Orientalism • Philippines • Plastic Surgery • research encounters • Skin • skin literacy • Social capital • Social Media • Suitability • Toronto • transnational • transnational body labor • Transnational feminism • transregional • Vietnam • Womenlink
• ISBN-10: 1-4798-0227-1 / 1479802271
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4798-0227-2 / 9781479802272