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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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
- About the Author