Pricing Beauty
The Making of a Fashion Model
Ashley Mears
This insiders' study of the modeling industry explores the economics and politics behind the business of glamour. Ashley Mears draws on extensive interviews with models, agents, clients, and more to reveal how the right "look" is turned into a commodity. This original contribution to the sociology of work in the cultural economy offers a fascinating analysis of the hidden ways gender, race, and class shape worth in the marketplace.
Publish Date
2011-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
2011-09-14T00:00:00.000Z
Goodreads Rating
3.57
ISBN
9780520270763
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2020-06-23T01:56:34.000Z
Both Ashley Mears’ books are ethnographies of elites (Pricing Beauty about the modeling industry and Very Important People about the global Patty circuit)
One element that I think characterizes how ethnography can be methodologically sophisticated is access to informants. – source