Seeing beauty, sensing race in transnational Indonesia / L. Ayu Saraswati.
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TextSeries: Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, and memory: Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, c2013Description: xi, 173 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780824836641 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780824837365 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Indonesia | Human skin color -- Indonesia -- Psychological aspects | Race awareness -- Indonesia| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Book | Gratia Christian College Library Book Shelves | Print book | HQ1220.I5 S17 2013 (Browse shelf) | Available | 0000815E |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-162) and index.
Introduction: seeing beauty, sensing race in transnational Indonesia -- Rasa, race, and Ramayana: sensing and censoring the history of color in precolonial Java -- Rooting and routing whiteness in colonial Indonesia: From Dutch to Japanese whiteness -- Indonesian white beauty: spatializing race and racializing spatial tropes -- Cosmopolitan whiteness: the effects and affects of skin-whitening advertisements in a transnational women's magazine -- Malu: coloring shame and shaming the color of beauty -- Conclusion: shades of emotions in a transnational context.