Size zero high-end ethnic: Cultural production and the reproduction of culture in fashion modeling

Mears, Ashley

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2009.10.002

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“…Thus, these efforts can benefit from strategic science, which requires researchers “to identify agents of change and create reciprocal information flow between researchers and these actors,” who may be policymakers, end users, or other stakeholders with an interest in a proposed policy (Brownell & Roberto, ). The fashion industry plays a central role in creating and marketing of representations of beauty (Entwistle & Wissinger, ; Mears, ) and fashion models are important stakeholders in efforts to enhance regulation of the industry. Our aim was to present findings from a study examining the acceptability of legislative proposals related to the work of fashion models as an example of such strategic research, in the hopes of encouraging and informing future strategic science in the area of eating disorders prevention.…”

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Results of a strategic science study to inform policies targeting extreme thinness standards in the fashion industry

Rodgers

Ziff

Lowy

et al. 2017

Intl J Eating Disorders

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The appearance pressures experienced by fashion models have been criticized as harmful to their health, as well as increasing eating disorder risk among youth by promoting ideals of extreme thinness. Given recent legislation to protect models, we undertook a strategic science study to assess professional fashion models' perceptions of the potential impact and feasibility of seven policy proposals. A sample of 85 female fashion models, mean age = 22.7 years (SD 3.7) completed an online survey assessing unhealthy weight control behaviors (UWCB), perceived pressure from agencies to lose weight, as well as the perceived impact and feasibility of seven potential policy actions. Chi-squared analyses and multivariable logistic regressions compared UWCB among models who were asked to lose weight and those who were not. Friedman and Kendall's W tests were conducted to examine differences in impact and feasibility ratings across the seven policy proposals. Models reported high levels of pressure to lose weight, which was associated with higher odds of engaging in UWCB. The policy approaches rated as most impactful were those to increase worker protections, though they were rated as only moderately feasible. Requiring employers to provide food and a 30-min break for jobs longer than 6 h was rated as both impactful and feasible. Imposing restrictions on minimum BMI was rated as the least impactful. Approaches providing employment protections and healthier working conditions are most supported by professional models. These findings help to illuminate viable policy approaches from the perspective of key stakeholders.

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Results of a strategic science study to inform policies targeting extreme thinness standards in the fashion industry

Rodgers

Ziff

Lowy

et al. 2017

Intl J Eating Disorders

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“…Our hypothesis that the models describe themselves mostly with socially prescribed "female characteristics" is rejected, because they present themselves in a more complex way, stating that they have both traditionally "male" and "female" behavioral characteristics. This could mean that they describe themselves as expected by the industry (Black 2004, Wissinger 2007, Mears 2010) but rather we think that their descriptions reflect that modeling is seen as a road to success beyond the traditional "dependent female" stereotype (Esteban 2004, Soley-Beltrán 2004, Córdoba 2006.…”

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Self view of women’s bodies and characteristics in early glamour website models

Mónge-Nájera¹,

Corrales²

2011

URJ

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Por lo menos a nivel público, las sociedades conservadoras tratan de impedir que las mujeres expongar sus cuerpos, y las que trabajan como modelos de glamour pueden ser vistas como transgresoras o acusadas por otros sectores de jugar un papel pasivo como “objetos sexuales”. En contraste con estas opiniones, la investigación muestra que las modelos de la época previa a Internet fueron participantes activas que percibían sus cuerpos como un medio para alcanzar recursos y poder. Con el fin de examinar si lo mismo es cierto en la era de Internet (es decir, si las modelos de Internet se perciben a si mismas como agentes pasivos o activos), y si su elección de carrera se vio afectada por el origen geográfico (una medida de cuán conservadora es su sociedad), analizamos el origen y las auto-descripciones que publicaban las modelos en el período inicial de Internet (2001). Nuestra población se compone de todas las modelos estadounidenses en el sitio internacional GlamourModels, principal sitio web de este tipo de modelaje. Nuestros datos no apoyan la hipótesis de que los estados conservadores estén sub-representados: en realidad, hubo más modelos de los estados con mayor población. Estas modelos no se presentan como pasivas, sino que según su autopercepción se califican a si mismas como mujeres activas y creativas, expresando abiertamente los límites en el tipo de trabajo que aceptaban. Estos datos del 2001 tienen el valor adicional de servir para comparación en estudios futuros.

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“…In the worst-case-scenario, they lead to a student's expulsion, the longterm consequences of which have been described as a "school-to-prison pipeline" (Kim, Losen, and Hewitt 2010;Mittleman 2018;Welch and Payne 2018). This definitional power extends far beyond the realm of education, into the world of literature (Franssen and Kuipers 2013), fashion (Mears 2010), business (Khurana 2002), and as we will see below, sports.…”

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Earning rent with your talent: Modern-day inequality rests on the power to define, transfer and institutionalize talent

Mijs

2020

Educational Philosophy and Theory

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In this paper I develop the point that whereas talent is the basis for desert, talent itself is not meritocratically deserved. It is produced by three processes, none of which are meritocratic: (1) talent is unequally distributed by the rigged lottery of birth, (2) talent is defined in ways that favor some traits over others, and (3) the market for talent is manipulated to maximally extract advantages by those who have more of it. To see how, we require a sociological perspective on economic rent. I argue that talent is a major means through which people seek rent in modern-day capitalism. Talent today is what inherited land was to feudal societies; an unchallenged source of symbolic and economic rewards. Whereas God sanctified the aristocracy's wealth, contemporary privilege is legitimated by meritocracy. Drawing on the work of Gary Becker, Pierre Bourdieu and Jerome Karabel, I show how rent-seeking in modern societies has come to rely principally on rent definition and creation. Inequality is produced by the ways in which talent is defined, institutionalization, and sustained by the moral deservingness we attribute to the accomplishments of talents. Consequently, today's inequalities are as striking as ever, yet harder to challenge than ever before.

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Size zero high-end ethnic: Cultural production and the reproduction of culture in fashion modeling

Cited by 104 publications

References 26 publications

Results of a strategic science study to inform policies targeting extreme thinness standards in the fashion industry

Results of a strategic science study to inform policies targeting extreme thinness standards in the fashion industry

Self view of women’s bodies and characteristics in early glamour website models

Earning rent with your talent: Modern-day inequality rests on the power to define, transfer and institutionalize talent

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