Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and Modern Empire in the Philippines, 1898-1941

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. A Queen Is Crowned  1
1. Tensions at the Seams: Petty Politics and Sartorial Battles  19
2. Queen Makers: Beauty, Power, and the Development of a Beauty Pageant Industrial Complex  63
3. Philippine Lingerie: Transnational Filipina Beauty Labor under US Empire  107
4. Beauty Regimes: Structure, Discipline, and Needlework in Colonial Industrial Schools and Prisons  139
5. "The Dream of Beauty": The Terno and the Filipina High-Fashion System  183
Epilogue. Protectionism and Preparedness under Overlapping Empires  223
Notes  237
Bibliography  287
Index  319