Beauty and the Nation - Women, Culture, and the National Image in Interwar Vietnam

Christina E. Firpo explores the development of beauty culture during the interwar years, showing how women's faces and bodies became contested sites for envisioning what it meant to be Vietnamese in the modern world.

About the author

Christina E. Firpo is professor of history at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. She is the author of Black Market Business: Selling Sex in Northern Vietnam, 1920-1945 (2020) and The Uprooted: Race, Childhood, and Imperialism in Indochina, 1890-1980 (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Christina E. Firpo
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 21.11.2025
• EAN: 9780231208871
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20887-1
• Illustrations: 29 black-and-white illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia, HISTORY / Women, South East Asia, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Gender studies: women, General and world history, Gender studies: women and girls, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General