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About Fashioning Fat: Inside Plus-Size Modeling
Product Description For two and a half years, Amanda Czerniawski was asociologist turned plus-size model. Journeying into a world where, as a size10, she was not considered an average body type, but rather, for the fashionindustry, “plus-sized,” Czerniawski studied the standards of work and imageproduction in the plus-sized model industry.Fashioning Fat takes us through a model’s day-to-day activities,first at open calls at modeling agencies and then through the fashion shows andphoto shoots. Czerniawski also interviewed 35 plus-size models about theirlives in the world of fashion, bringing to life the strange contradictions ofbeing an object of non-idealized beauty.Fashioning Fat showsus that the mission of many of these models is to challenge our standards ofbeauty that privilege the thin body; they show us that fat can be sexy. Many plus-sizemodels do often succeed in overcoming years of self-loathing and shame overtheir bodies, yet, as Czerniawski shows, these women are not the ones in chargeof beauty’s construction or dissemination. At the corporate level, the fashionindustry perpetuates their objectification. Plus-size models must conform to animage created by fashion’s tastemakers, as their bodies must fit withinnarrowly defined parameters of size and shape—an experience not too differentfrom that of straight-sized models. Ultimately, plus-size models find that theyare still molding their bodies to fit an image instead of molding an image ofbeauty to fit their bodies. A much-needed behind-the-scenes look at thisgrowing industry, Fashioning Fat is afascinating, unique, and important contribution to our understanding of beauty. Review "At once a sociological adventure and a moving personal voyage, Amanda Czerniawskis striking study of plus-size modeling shows the intense aesthetic labor that disciplines the body and shapes the self. Engagingly written, Fashioning Fat addresses the sociologies of work and the professions, of gender and the body, as well as the emergent field of fat studies. Like all good ethnography, this one takes us to a new world and insists upon its connections to the worlds we know." -- Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson,author of Word of Mouth: What We Talk About When We Talk About Food "Fashioning Fat is an excellent book and will make important contributions to fat studies and sociology. an extremely interesting read." -- Esther Rothblum,co-editor of The Fat Studies Reader "Fashioning Fatis one woman's courageous attempt to redefine beauty. It is a readable indictment of the American Fashion Industry. It is very well-argued and beautifully written." ― TheWashingtonBookReview.com "[]Fashioning Fatis absolutely worth reading." ― XOVain.com "[H]er book is...honest, thoughtful and insightful." ― Pacific Standard "Sociology professor Czerniawski goes undercover as a plus-size model in this expose to find out the truth: is it empowering or exploitative to strut ones size-14 (and up) self in front of the fashion industrys cameras? The answer is as complicated and obscure as our relationship to food and our weight, since, as the author states, & Frankly, fat means different things to different people. [] The books personal asides and insider information are enlightening." ― Publishers Weekly "Fashioning Fatis a well-written and thoughtful book that offers an interesting contribution to feminist understandings of the body. Czerniawskis narrative writing style is engaging and accessible, making this book well suited for both undergraduate and graduate syllabi. It will be a valuable resource for scholars of gender, work, embodiment, sociology of culture, and the emerging field of fat studies." ― Gender & Society "We need, she suggests, not models of different size and shape, but a more fundamental questioning of the fashion industry itself and its current domination of our conceptions of beauty, especially the beauty of women." ― First Things' "Fashioning Fatis an engaging, well-researched book which
