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Fashioning Fat : Inside Plus-Size Modeling

For two and a half years, Amanda Czerniawski was a sociologist turned plus-size model. Journeying into a world where, as a size 10, she was not considered an average body type, but rather, for the fashion industry, "plus-sized," Czerniawski studied the standards of work and image productio...

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Autor principal: Czerniawski, Amanda M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York NYU Press 2015
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. From Books to Looks: Journeying into Plus-Size Modeling; 2. How to Become a Plus-Size Model; 3. Models of All (Plus) Sizes?; 4. Disciplining Corpulence through Aesthetic Labor; 5. Agents as Gatekeepers of Fashion; 6. Selling the Fat Body; 7. Stepping Out of the Plus-Size Looking Glass; Notes; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; About the Author. 
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