Experiments In Skin: Race And Beauty In The Shadows Of Vietnam

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.

• | By (Author): Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu
• | Publisher: Duke University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 16, 2021
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1478011777
• | ISBN-13: 9781478011774