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Ashley Mears's Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model PDF

By Ashley Mears

Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us in the back of the brightly lit runways and shiny ads of the style during this insider’s research of the realm of modeling. Mears, who labored as a version in long island and London, attracts on observations in addition to broad interviews with female and male versions, brokers, consumers, photographers, stylists, and others, to discover the economics and politics—and the arbitrariness— at the back of the company of glamour. Exploring a mostly hidden area of cultural creation, she indicates how the precise "look" is found, constructed, and packaged to turn into a prized commodity. She examines how types promote themselves, how brokers advertise them, and the way consumers choose to lease them. An unique contribution to the sociology of labor within the new cultural financial system, Pricing Beauty bargains wealthy, obtainable research of the invisible ways that gender, race, and sophistication form worthy within the marketplace.

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