Description
Product ID: | 9780691168654 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Very Important People |
Subtitle: | Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit |
Authors: | Author: Ashley Mears |
Page Count: | 320 |
Subjects: | Popular culture, Popular culture, Social classes, Gender studies: women and girls, Sociology: work and labour, Social and cultural anthropology, Social classes, Gender studies: women, Sociology: work & labour, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today's New Gilded Age, the world's moneyed classes have |
Imprint Name: | Princeton University Press |
Publisher Name: | Princeton University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-05-26 |