Experiments in skin : race and beauty in the shadows of Vietnam / Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu.
"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 repai...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2021.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | "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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 230 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1478013133 9781478013136 |