final Flashcards
chop shop
derogatory short hand for nail discount salons. Use has provoked racial insults reserect old racial framework such as the “yellow peril”
yellow peril
hot beds of disease and violators of US labor and living standards. new and old. These anti-Asian sentiments are from a century ago. the yellow peril is a collection of racial stereotypes of Asians and Asian americans asdirty, alien, evil and bent on invading or undermining western civilization.
- shortcuts in cleaning
- fast and inexpensive but at what cost.
What is Asian-ness?
clients see pushy, rushed and impersonal aspect of the service providers as Asian-ness.
What is emotional labour
lunches together, work becomes a second home.
What are the central themes to good hair.
white hair is good hair. the cost of assimilation. toxic chemicals. beauty defined.
model- minority.
asian americans are seen as the model minority becuse they can assimilate smoothly. they are industrious, hard working,
why do african americans reject the idea of the model minority.
minority hierarchy
Who is the main throrist in the book the managed hand?
Arlie Hochschild
What is emotional Labour?
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What is the commercialization of intimate life?
intimate life has become part of global capitalist economy. capitalism has created many new jobs out of the commercialization of intimate life.
Appearance, comfort and health of human body have become a profit making venue.
What is gendered employment?
hochschild says that transnational inequalities allow proffesional women in rich countries to rely on women from pooredr countries for their domestic duties
What is feminization of imigration?
imigrants from countries like the philippines pick up the second shift for rich women as maids and nannies.
What are gendered employment experiences?
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What does Arlie Hochschild say about emotions and service.
“The emotional style of offering the service is part of the service itself.”
Service work increasingly involves managing the emotional work of the heart.
- smiling
- complimenting, smoothing over conflicts,
- exchanging pleasantries.
what is body labour?
focuses on the exchange value of services performed on the body for a wage or other form of compensation. It entails extensive physical laboubor and the body servs as the vehicle for performing work but it also incorporates the body as the site or object upon which services are preformed.
What is the third shift?
- beauty.
- increasingly relies on the labour of immigrant women of colour.
what is unskilled labour?
paid domestic labour and beaty services.
What is the sacrifice of beauty service workers in their family lives?
often the migrate hoping to beter support their families but they have to take care of others in the workplace and sacrifice the care of their own families physical and mental health.
Naomi wolf and the beauty myth
-womens profesional and political advancement is undermined by unattainable expectations regarding physical appearance.
What are important tools for womens political and social power
Conforming to beauty ideology.
What is the second shift?
Womens double duty as wage earners and home makers.
What is the problem with trying to achieve power by beauty?
it does not change social structures than inhib woman’s power.
what does Pierre Bourdieu say about taste?
distinctions in everyday tastes as notions of beauty are shaped by social locations
What does Kang focus on about taste?
enlarges Bourdieu's concept. says that the concept of habitus addresses how gender and race also influence tast resulting in social hiearchies. - taste is a reflection of gender, class and race.
What is habitus?
conditions associated with a particular class of conditions of existence. the neccesity to display embodied distinction. Variation in manicures is not about taste but about customers habitus.