Genevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial expansion and modern nation building during the turbulent transition between Spanish, US, and Japanese empires.
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Queen Is Crowned
- 1. Tensions at the Seams: Petty Politics and Sartorial Battles
- 2. Queen Makers: Beauty, Power, and the Development of a Beauty Pageant Industrial Complex
- 3. Philippine Lingerie: Transnational Filipina Beauty Labor under US Empire
- 4. Beauty Regimens: Structure, Discipline, and Needlework in Colonial Industrial Schools and Prisons
- 5. “The Dream of Beauty”: The Terno and the Filipina High-Fashion System
- Epilogue: Protectionism and Preparedness under Overlapping Empires
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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