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Beauty regimes : a history of power and modern empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941 / Genevieve Alva Clutario.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clutario, Genevieve Alva, 1981- author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beauty, Personal--Social aspects--Philippines.
- Beauty, Personal.
- Beauty, Personal--Political aspects--Philippines.
- Clothing and dress--Social aspects--Philippines.
- Clothing and dress.
- Clothing and dress--Political aspects--Philippines.
- Philippines--Colonization--Social aspects.
- Philippines.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 335 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "In Beauty Regimes, Genevieve Clutario reveals how beauty politics in the Philippines created new relationships between colonial institutions, private industries, and diverse social worlds. During the turbulent transition between Spanish, US, and Japanese empires and the anti-colonial nationalist movement in the Philippines, beauty and fashion shaped intertwined projects of imperial expansion and modern nation-building. Beauty and fashion transformed political, economic, social, and cultural power that converged in the Philippines during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The Philippines became both a source and resource of beauty, though not always for Filipinos themselves. This pathbreaking book offers new ways of understanding beauty's central place in the making of imperial and nationalist power."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: A queen is crowned
- Tensions at the seams : petty politics and sartorial battles
- Queen makers : beauty, power, and the development of a beauty pageant industrial complex
- Philippine lingerie : transnational Filipina beauty labor under US empire
- Beauty regimens : structure, discipline, and needlework in colonial industrial schools and prisons
- "The dream of beauty" : the terno and the Filipina high-fashion system
- Epilogue: Protectionism and preparedness under overlapping empires.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Clutario, Genevieve Alva, 1981- Beauty regimes.
- ISBN:
- 9781478024279
- 1478024275
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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