{"product_id":"beauty-regimes-9781478019640","title":"Beauty Regimes","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGenevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion and modern nation building during the turbulent transition between Spanish, US, and Japanese empires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Peering through a gendered lens, Clutario exposes the complex roles Filipinas played within empire and the fraught establishment of the Philippine Commonwealth. . . . Writing about the wives of politicians, embroiderers, beauty queens, and socialites, Clutario renders beauty as a complex weapon. In the hands of her Filipina subjects, it is deployed with both tenderness and aggression.” -- Alice Sarmiento * Rappler *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A unique book that delivers fresh insights into the American colonial period in the Philippines through the politics of fashion and beauty regimens.\"\u003c\/p\u003e -- Mina Roces * Fashion Theory *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. A Queen Is Crowned  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Tensions at the Seams: Petty Politics and Sartorial Battles  19\u003cbr\u003e 2. Queen Makers: Beauty, Power, and the Development of a Beauty Pageant Industrial Complex  63\u003cbr\u003e 3. Philippine Lingerie: Transnational Filipina Beauty Labor under US Empire  107\u003cbr\u003e 4. Beauty Regimes: Structure, Discipline, and Needlework in Colonial Industrial Schools and Prisons  139\u003cbr\u003e 5. “The Dream of Beauty”: The Terno and the Filipina High-Fashion System  183\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Protectionism and Preparedness under Overlapping Empires  223\u003cbr\u003e Notes  237\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  287\u003cbr\u003e Index  319","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409011646807,"sku":"9781478019640","price":21.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478019640.jpg?v=1730505084","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/beauty-regimes-9781478019640","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}