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SUMMARY:Beauty and the Nation: Women\, Culture\, and the National Image of
  Vietnam 1920-1940
LOCATION:Kahin Center\, 640 Stewart Ave\, Ithaca\, NY 14850\, USA
DESCRIPTION:Gatty Lecture Series\n\nJoin us for a talk by Christina Firpo\
 , Professor of History at California Polytechnic State University.\n\nThi
 s Gatty Lecture will take place at the Kahin Center\, 640 Stewart Ave. Lu
 nch will be served. For questions\, contact seap@cornell.edu.\n\nAbstract
 \n\nChristina Firpo will discuss her book Beauty and the Nation\, which e
 xplores the changing perspectives on Vietnamese women's beauty and women'
 s role in society\, 1920-1940. This book traces beauty culture\, includin
 g beauty practices and the discourse surrounding them\, through an era of
  high colonialism\, maturing capitalism\, and rapid cultural change broug
 ht about with new forms of media and transportation. The changes in beaut
 y norms and female comportment shocked the nation. Some critics asserted 
 the merits of neo-Confucian dictates for women’s behavior\; others embrac
 ed a new Vietnamese modernity. Indeed\, women's everyday clothing and mak
 eup came to play an important role in shaping the kind of nation Vietnam 
 would become in the modern world. Beauty practices (and the debates they 
 triggered) became a powerful expression of how women (and onlookers) atte
 mpted to make sense of their rapidly changing world. Understood this way\
 , beauty culture reveals anxieties about the tumultuous political\, econo
 mic\, social\, and cultural changes transforming Vietnam during the inter
 war years. Women’s faces and bodies\, in short\, became a vigorously deba
 ted site for envisioning what it meant to be Vietnamese in a modern world
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