Moving, sensing intersectionality: A case study of miss China Europe

Signs

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 411-436

  Chow, Yiu Fai ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; COSMETIC INDUSTRY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEMALE; HISTORY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INDIVIDUALITY; LEGAL ASPECT; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS;

BEAUTY CULTURE; CHINA; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; NETHERLANDS; SOCIAL ALIENATION; SOCIAL CONDITIONS; SOCIAL IDENTIFICATION; WOMEN;

EID: 78650388587     PISSN: 00979740     EISSN: 15456943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/656023     Document Type: Article

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