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Miliann Kang is an assistant professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and affiliated faculty in Sociology and Asian/Asian American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Her book, The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work (University of California Press, 2010) examines service interactions between women in Asian-owned nail salons, and won the Sara Whaley book prize from the National Women's Studies Association. Currently, she is researching work-family issues for Asian American women and the ways that gender and race influence motherhood and career paths. Her research has been supported by the American Association of University Women, the Ford Foundation, the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass Boston, the Labor Center at UMass Amherst, and the Social Science Research Council.