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Experiments in Skin: Race and Beauty in the Shadows of Vietnam Kindle Edition
- Print length240 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDuke University Press Books
- Publication dateFebruary 22, 2021
- File size11383 KB
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“Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu advances a theory of aesthetics and politics that is urgently relevant to contemporary postcolonial theorizations of colonial modernity and the resistance to it. By historicizing the emergence of dermatology in the context of American empire and war, Experiments in Skin embodies the best of cultural studies methodology and analysis.”―Jennifer Terry, author of, Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America
"Experiments in Skin has extensive, detailed notes, and the depth of Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu’s analysis is evident as she cites military archives, newspaper articles and her own on-site research. . . . It is written in a journalistic style, which makes it accessible to a wide audience who might wish to learn about the heavy topics presented."―Bella Dalton-Fenkl, International Examiner
"Experiments in Skin is an ambitious and multifaceted account of the social afterlife of militarized medical science; its interdisciplinarity permits its author to draw insight from revealing juxtapositions. . . . Drawing together critical science studies with ethnography, Experiments in Skin contributes not only to medical anthropology and the history of medicine but also to a nascent critical research literature on beauty products and industries. Its chapters would make thought-provoking contributions to advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars in critical environmental studies, cultural studies, feminist studies, medical anthropology, postcolonial studies, science and technology studies, and Southeast Asian studies."―Martha Lincoln, Medical Anthropology Quarterly
"Experiments in Skin is a superb gift: beautifully written, intellectually expansive, accessible and engaging. One of the most admirable aspects of Experiments in Skin is its ambitious capacity: it covers a lot of intellectual ground, but does so in such a way that still maintains analytical depth and thoroughness. Tu’s capacity to balance both is enviable, and is a quality that makes this book such an engaging and enjoyable read."―John Paul (JP) Catungal, Society and Space
"It is well beyond the scope of a short book review to do justice to Dr. Tu’s exacting empirical research, or her powerful and affecting prose. But what I want to emphasize in my comments here is how Experiments in Skin is a fundamentally geographical book. It is, at its core, a book about places, the people who inhabit them, and the connections between them."―Wesley Attewell, Society and Space
"In this insightful—and indeed beautiful—book, Tu offers us a model of scholarly work that not only undertakes a rigorous examination of the archives of militarism and science, but also a theorization of the forms of life remaindered by war."
―Linda Luu, Society and Space
"Readers of all stripes will find much to appreciate and admire in this interdisciplinary historical project, as Tu provides the probing critical analysis and somatic language needed to tackle the deep entanglements of military racism, prison torture, and chemical warfare. Experiments in Skin is a book for anyone interested in what stories our skin have to tell, despite the endless technologies of maiming and the politics of denial. If our history is embodied, then our skin remembers well that living history, and it never lies about what cannot be denied or covered up."―Long T. Bui, American Historical Review
"By conjoining the United States and Vietnam through their similar relationships with skin, Tu offers new ways to understand how military, medical, and commercial interests have shaped and influenced the ways Vietnamese women have sought to cure and relieve skin disorders. . . . In tracing the history of experiments in the skin, Tu powerfully articulates how Vietnamese women do not hold the same desires as the US military holds. . . ."―Shani Tra & Sunshine Blanco, Journal of Asian American Studies
"In pursuing the ghostly traces of latent histories, Tu’s book theorizes the connections between surfaces of racialized, gendered, commercialized, militarized, and medicalized skin on multiple scales across the US and Vietnam, while being attentive to alternate logics of relationality and responsibility."―Elizabeth Wijaya, Pacific Affairs
"By considering the scientific contributions and innovations of the Global South, Nguyen Tu disentangles social and medical theory from its purportedly Western origins and places it in a global context. Perhaps the question at hand is not just how dermatology’s beginnings concern women in contemporary Vietnam but also how this line of inquiry can be furthered in Vietnam studies."―Allen L. Tran, Journal of Vietnamese Studies
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- ASIN : B08WX1BJDH
- Publisher : Duke University Press Books (February 22, 2021)
- Publication date : February 22, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 11383 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 240 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,477,275 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #216 in Asian American Studies (Kindle Store)
- #900 in Asian American Studies (Books)
- #1,084 in Vietnam War History (Kindle Store)
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