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Ashley Mears. Download PDF. Download Full PDF Package. This paper. A short summary of this paper. 24 Full PDFs related to this paper. Read Paper. Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model (California, ) Download. Related Papers “Size Zero High-End Ethnic: Cultural Production and the Reproduction of Culture in Fashion Modeling.” Ashley Mears is an American writer, sociologist, and former fashion www.doorway.ru is currently an associate professor of sociology at Boston www.doorway.ru is the author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model, and is regularly quoted in media as an academic expert in the culture and economics of fashion.  · Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model. Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider’s study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, /5(29).

Ashley Mears is an American writer, sociologist, and former fashion model. She is currently an associate professor of sociology at Boston University. Mears is the author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model, and is regularly quoted in media as an academic expert in the culture and economics of fashion. Her book, "Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model," tells her own story of life as a model. She's now an assistant professor of sociology at Boston University. If you've had experience in. "Ashley Mears is a talented ethnographer, a first-rate sociological thinker and an artful writer. Pricing Beauty offers a dazzling, engaging, utterly original contribution to public and scholarly understanding of embodiment, gender, race, culture, and markets. A riveting work of priceless beauty!and#; and#;Judith Stacey, author Unhitched: Love, Marriage and Family Values from West.

"Pricing Beauty is a a courageous and provocative book. Mears takes us behind the curtain of high-stakes fashion. Drawing on her own experiences as a model, Mears uncovers the far less glamorous side of the industry, one that few of us will ever see. The title of Mears’ book, Pricing Beauty, refers to her scholarly efforts to understand who or what determines a given model’s chances of success in a field glutted with gorgeous people. How. Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model. Sociologist Ashley Mears takes us behind the brightly lit runways and glossy advertisements of the fashion industry in this insider’s study of the world of modeling. Mears, who worked as a model in New York and London, draws on observations as well as extensive interviews with male and female models, agents, clients, photographers, stylists, and others, to explore the econ.