Book Reviews.

Genevieve Alva Clutario’s Beauty Regimes: A History of Power and ModernEmpire in the Philippines, 1898–1941 builds on the work of Mina Roces andStephanie Coo and offers a fascinating analysis with which to understand the roleof beauty and beauty production in the Philippines during US colonial rule.Through a tran- simperial analysis accounting for Spanish, American, andJapanese imperialism, Clutario demonstrates the various ways Filipinas andAmericans (re)negotiated and (re)created Filipina identity through seeminglyeveryday, sartorial practices. By providing several viewpoints, the authorexhibits the way gender complicated and played a crucial part in shaping nationaldiscourses and identities.