Miliann Kang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620710 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miliann Kang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miliann |
| FAMILY NAME | Kang |
| SIGNATURE | KANG M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8037-2127 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
"How Glass Ceilings and Iron Rice Bowls Create "Glass Bowls
Integrating the concept of "glass ceiling" barriers with "iron rice bowl" job security, this study develops the framework of "glass bowls" to theorize tradeoffs between workplace advancement and protections, focusing on public sector employment in South Korea. While the glass ceiling refers to invisible, impenetrable barriers, especially but not exclusively regarding gender, the glass bowl concept also emphasizes the fragility of glass to highlig…
Reproducing Asian American Studies
Reproductive exclusion refers both to the policing of borders based on acceptable forms of reproduction, and the policing of reproduction of those already within these borders. Building on the contributions of Asian American feminist scholarship, reproductive exclusion serves as an analytic to foreground the status of Asian Americans as the first group to be formally excluded from immigration based on race. It brings reproductive politics more ce…
Contrasting Scientific Discourses of Skin Lightening in Domestic and Global Contexts
This chapter examines how racial and gender ideologies shape and are shaped by scientific understandings of beauty practices via a critical examination of the scholarly discourses on skin lightening. Based on qualitative content analysis of thirty domestic and international scholarly articles on skin lightening and whitening published between 2000 and 2017, the authors found that products in Europe and the United States marketed to white customer…
Teachers as good mothers, mothers as good teachers
As one of the largest women‐dominated employment niches in many national contexts, the teaching profession has been widely studied, yet the gender, work and family negotiations within this profession deserve fuller attention. The case study of South Korean teachers, one of the most highly qualified teaching workforces in the world, illuminates how particular professions create specific challenges as well as supports for work and family that can c…
Crazy Rich Asians
Aloha America
Fictive Kinship
Making Feminist Politics
Making Up the Difference
At the Heart of Work and Family
Organizing at the Margins
Nadia Kim, Imperial Citizens
The Managed Hand
There's No Like the Nail Business 2. Other Work Is There?: Manicurists 3. Hooked on Nails: Customers 4. I Just Put Koreans and Nails Together: Nail Spas and the Model Minority 5. Black People Have Not Been the Ones Who Get Pampered: Nail Art Salons and Black-Korean Relations 6. You Could Get a Fungus: Asian Discount Nail Salons as the New Yellow Peril Conclusion: What Is a Manicure Worth? Notes References Index
Two BirthdaysAirport Checkpoints
On Free Food for Millionaires
Managing Multicultural Lives
Cross-Border Marriages
The Managed Hand
This ethnographic study of service interactions in Korean immigrant women-owned nailsalons in New York City introduces the concept 'body labor' to designate a type of gendered work that involves the management of emotions in body-related service provision. The author explores variation in the performance of body labor caused by the intersection of the gendered processes of beauty service work with the racialized and class-specific service expecta…
The Managed Hand
This ethnographic study of service interactions in Korean immigrant women-owned nailsalons in New York City introduces the concept 'body labor' to designate a type of gendered work that involves the management of emotions in body-related service provision. The author explores variation in the performance of body labor caused by the intersection of the gendered processes of beauty service work with the racialized and class-specific service expecta…
At the Heart of Work and Family
Making Up the Difference
Making Feminist Politics
Teachers as good mothers, mothers as good teachers
As one of the largest women‐dominated employment niches in many national contexts, the teaching profession has been widely studied, yet the gender, work and family negotiations within this profession deserve fuller attention. The case study of South Korean teachers, one of the most highly qualified teaching workforces in the world, illuminates how particular professions create specific challenges as well as supports for work and family that can c…
Reproducing Asian American Studies
Reproductive exclusion refers both to the policing of borders based on acceptable forms of reproduction, and the policing of reproduction of those already within these borders. Building on the contributions of Asian American feminist scholarship, reproductive exclusion serves as an analytic to foreground the status of Asian Americans as the first group to be formally excluded from immigration based on race. It brings reproductive politics more ce…
Crazy Rich Asians
Organizing at the Margins
The Managed Hand
This ethnographic study of service interactions in Korean immigrant women-owned nailsalons in New York City introduces the concept 'body labor' to designate a type of gendered work that involves the management of emotions in body-related service provision. The author explores variation in the performance of body labor caused by the intersection of the gendered processes of beauty service work with the racialized and class-specific service expecta…
Cross-Border Marriages
Managing Multicultural Lives
On Free Food for Millionaires
Nadia Kim, Imperial Citizens
The Managed Hand
There's No Like the Nail Business 2. Other Work Is There?: Manicurists 3. Hooked on Nails: Customers 4. I Just Put Koreans and Nails Together: Nail Spas and the Model Minority 5. Black People Have Not Been the Ones Who Get Pampered: Nail Art Salons and Black-Korean Relations 6. You Could Get a Fungus: Asian Discount Nail Salons as the New Yellow Peril Conclusion: What Is a Manicure Worth? Notes References Index
Two BirthdaysAirport Checkpoints
At the Heart of Work and Family
Organizing at the Margins
Making Up the Difference
Aloha America
Fictive Kinship
Making Feminist Politics
Contrasting Scientific Discourses of Skin Lightening in Domestic and Global Contexts
This chapter examines how racial and gender ideologies shape and are shaped by scientific understandings of beauty practices via a critical examination of the scholarly discourses on skin lightening. Based on qualitative content analysis of thirty domestic and international scholarly articles on skin lightening and whitening published between 2000 and 2017, the authors found that products in Europe and the United States marketed to white customer…
Teachers as good mothers, mothers as good teachers
As one of the largest women‐dominated employment niches in many national contexts, the teaching profession has been widely studied, yet the gender, work and family negotiations within this profession deserve fuller attention. The case study of South Korean teachers, one of the most highly qualified teaching workforces in the world, illuminates how particular professions create specific challenges as well as supports for work and family that can c…
Crazy Rich Asians
Reproducing Asian American Studies
Reproductive exclusion refers both to the policing of borders based on acceptable forms of reproduction, and the policing of reproduction of those already within these borders. Building on the contributions of Asian American feminist scholarship, reproductive exclusion serves as an analytic to foreground the status of Asian Americans as the first group to be formally excluded from immigration based on race. It brings reproductive politics more ce…
"How Glass Ceilings and Iron Rice Bowls Create "Glass Bowls
Integrating the concept of "glass ceiling" barriers with "iron rice bowl" job security, this study develops the framework of "glass bowls" to theorize tradeoffs between workplace advancement and protections, focusing on public sector employment in South Korea. While the glass ceiling refers to invisible, impenetrable barriers, especially but not exclusively regarding gender, the glass bowl concept also emphasizes the fragility of glass to highlig…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Beauty (4 works) · Business (4 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (4 works)