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Czerniawski Amanda M |
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Titolo |
Fashioning Fat : Inside Plus-Size Modeling |
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2015 |
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New York, : NYU Press, 2015 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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9780814770320 |
0814770320 |
9780814760079 |
0814760074 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Body image |
Plus-size women's clothing industry |
Self-esteem in women |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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IMD-Felder maschinell generiert |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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