Fashioning Fat : : Inside Plus-Size Modeling / / Amanda M. Czerniawski.
For two and a half years, Amanda Czerniawski was asociologist turned plus-size model. Journeying into a world where, as a size10, she was not considered an average body type, but rather, for the fashionindustry, “plus-sized,” Czerniawski studied the standards of work and imageproduction in the plus-...
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