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Bye-Bye to Magic Nails:
Conversations with Korean Immigrant
Women About Competence, Comfort, and Class
DORIS FRIEDENSOHN
"CONVERSATIONS" IN THE title signals my subject and method. Covering
a period of almost fifteen years, they focus on the experiences of two
educated, Korean-born women who began their transition to American life
as manicurists in a nail salon. I paid for their labor while they tended
to my body. Initially, my own professional interests provoked our exchanges.
Soon they trusted me with their secrets, their ordinary struggles, and
we became friends.
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