Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu

Broschiertes Buch

Experiments in Skin

Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam

Beschreibung

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, showing how US wartime efforts to alleviate the environmental and chemical risks to soldiers' skin has impacted how contemporary Vietnamese women use pharmaceutical cosmetics to repair the damage from the war's lingering toxicity.

Autor

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu is Associate Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and author of The Beautiful Generation: Asian Americans and the Cultural Economy of Fashion, also published by Duke University Press.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781478011774
• ISBN-10: 1478011777
• Artikelnr.: 59761755