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Record Nr.

UNINA9911004793603321

Autore

Czerniawski Amanda M

Titolo

Fashioning Fat : Inside Plus-Size Modeling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2015

New York, : NYU Press, 2015

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©2015

ISBN

9780814770320

0814770320

9780814760079

0814760074

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Classificazione

SOC026000SOC028000

Disciplina

746.92082

Soggetti

Body image

Plus-size women's clothing industry

Self-esteem in women

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

IMD-Felder maschinell generiert

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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 production in the plus-sized model industry. Fashioning Fat takes us through a model's day-to-day activities, first at open calls at



modeling agencies and then through the fashion shows and photo shoots. Czerniawski also interviewed 35 plus-size models about their lives in the world of fashion, bringing to life the st