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X-WR-CALNAME:Beauty and the Nation: Women\, Culture\, and the National Imag
 e of Vietnam 1920-1940
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DESCRIPTION:Gatty Lecture Series\n\nJoin us for a talk by Christina Firpo\,
  Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University.\n\nThis 
 Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center\, 640 Stewart Ave. Lunch
  will be served. For questions\, contact seap@cornell.edu.\n\nAbstract\n\n
 Christina Firpo will discuss her book Beauty and the Nation\, which explor
 es the changing perspectives on Vietnamese women's beauty and women's role
  in society\, 1920-1940.  This book traces beauty culture\, including beau
 ty practices and the discourse surrounding them\, through an era of high c
 olonialism\, maturing capitalism\, and rapid cultural change brought about
  with new forms of media and transportation.  The changes in beauty norms 
 and female comportment shocked the nation. Some critics asserted the merit
 s of neo-Confucian dictates for women’s behavior\; others embraced a new
  Vietnamese modernity.  Indeed\, women's everyday clothing and makeup came
  to play an important role in shaping the kind of nation Vietnam would bec
 ome in the modern world. Beauty practices (and the debates they triggered)
  became a powerful expression of how women (and onlookers) attempted to ma
 ke sense of their rapidly changing world. Understood this way\, beauty cul
 ture reveals anxieties about the tumultuous political\, economic\, social\
 , and cultural changes transforming Vietnam during the interwar years. Wom
 en’s faces and bodies\, in short\, became a vigorously debated site for 
 envisioning what it meant to be Vietnamese in a modern world.\n\nAbout the
  Speaker\n\nChristina Firpo is professor of Southeast Asian history at Cal
 ifornia Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. She is the author
  of The Uprooted: Race\, Imperialism\, and Childhood in Indochina 1890-198
 0 (University of Hawaii Press\, 2016)\; Black Market Business: Selling Sex
  in Northern Vietnam 1920-1940 (Cornell University Press\, 2020)\; and Bea
 uty and the Nation: Women\, Culture\, and the National Image in Interwar V
 ietnam (Columbia University Press\, 2026).
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LOCATION:Kahin Center
SUMMARY:Beauty and the Nation: Women\, Culture\, and the National Image of 
 Vietnam 1920-1940
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 culture-and-the-national-image-vietnam-1920-1940
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