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Pricing Beauty

Ashley Mears

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© 2019 University of California Press, Berkeley

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Pricing Beauty iii
Contents vii
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Chapter 1. Entry 1
Chapter 2. Economics of the Catwalk 27
Chapter 3. Becoming a Look 71
Chapter 4. The Tastemakers 121
Chapter 5. Size Zero High- End Ethnic 170
Chapter 6. Runway to Gender 209
Chapter 7. Exit 249
Appendix. The Precarious Labor of Ethnography 263
Notes 267
Bibliography 283
Index 297

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520950214-001

Chapters in this book

Frontmatter i
Pricing Beauty iii
Contents vii
Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Chapter 1. Entry 1
Chapter 2. Economics of the Catwalk 27
Chapter 3. Becoming a Look 71
Chapter 4. The Tastemakers 121
Chapter 5. Size Zero High- End Ethnic 170
Chapter 6. Runway to Gender 209
Chapter 7. Exit 249
Appendix. The Precarious Labor of Ethnography 263
Notes 267
Bibliography 283
Index 297

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