Ashley Mears

Gebundenes Buch

Very Important People

Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

Beschreibung

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today's New Gilded Age, the world's moneyed classes have

Autor

Ashley Mears is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University. She is the author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, Elle, and other publications. She lives in Boston.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 167mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 654g
• ISBN-13: 9780691168654
• ISBN-10: 0691168652
• Artikelnr.: 58121042