The Managed Hand: The Commercialization of Bodies and Emotions in Korean Immigrant-Owned Nail Salons

Gender and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 820-839

  Kang, Miliann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Body labor; Emotional labor; Gendered work; Immigrant women's work; Intersections of race, gender, and class; Korean women

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242550645     PISSN: 08912432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891243203257632     Document Type: Article

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