Keeping up appearances: Aesthetic labour in the fashion modelling industries of London and New York

Sociological Review

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 774-794

  Entwistle, Joanne ^a   Wissinger, Elizabeth ^a  

^a LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 33750551070     PISSN: 00380261     EISSN: 1467954X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-954X.2006.00671.x     Document Type: Review

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