Not just a paper doll : How models manage bodily capital and why they perform emotional labor

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 317-343

  Mears, Ashley ^a   Finlay, William ^b,c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c New York University ^*

Author keywords

Bodily capital; Emotional labor; Fashion industry; Models and modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 19944383497     PISSN: 08912416     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0891241605274559     Document Type: Review

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