Ashley Mears is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and in the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Boston University. She is the author of Pricing Beauty: The Making of a Fashion Model. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, Elle, and other publications. She lives in Boston.
Million-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 taken conspicuous consumption to new extremes. In Very Important People, sociologist, author, and former fashion model Ashley Mears takes readers inside the exclusive global nightclub and party circuit—from New York City and the Hamptons to Miami and Saint-Tropez—to reveal the intricate economy of beauty, status, and money that lies behind these spectacular displays of wealth and leisure.
Mears spent eighteen months in this world of “models and bottles” to write this captivating, sometimes funny, sometimes heartbreaking narrative. She describes how clubs and restaurants pay promoters to recruit beautiful young women to their venues in order to attract men and get them to spend huge sums in the ritual of bottle service. These “girls” enhance the status of the men and enrich club owners, exchanging their bodily capital for as little as free drinks and a chance to party with men who are rich or aspire to be. Though they are priceless assets in the party circuit, these women are regarded as worthless as long-term relationship prospects, and their bodies are constantly assessed against men’s money.
A story of extreme gender inequality in a seductive world, Very Important People unveils troubling realities behind moneyed leisure in an age of record economic disparity.
發表於2024-12-26
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全美最美社會學傢Ashley Mears又齣書瞭,之前我寫過一篇[日誌放]瞭幾張照片給讀者們擼。現在Ashley已經三十好幾,到瞭女人的黃金年齡看起來更好擼瞭。Ashley這個新作Very Important People (VIP)講的還是模特的故事,但是這次的主角其實已經悄悄轉換成夜店策劃(promoter),類似...
評分全美最美社會學傢Ashley Mears又齣書瞭,之前我寫過一篇[日誌放]瞭幾張照片給讀者們擼。現在Ashley已經三十好幾,到瞭女人的黃金年齡看起來更好擼瞭。Ashley這個新作Very Important People (VIP)講的還是模特的故事,但是這次的主角其實已經悄悄轉換成夜店策劃(promoter),類似...
評分全美最美社會學傢Ashley Mears又齣書瞭,之前我寫過一篇[日誌放]瞭幾張照片給讀者們擼。現在Ashley已經三十好幾,到瞭女人的黃金年齡看起來更好擼瞭。Ashley這個新作Very Important People (VIP)講的還是模特的故事,但是這次的主角其實已經悄悄轉換成夜店策劃(promoter),類似...
評分全美最美社會學傢Ashley Mears又齣書瞭,之前我寫過一篇[日誌放]瞭幾張照片給讀者們擼。現在Ashley已經三十好幾,到瞭女人的黃金年齡看起來更好擼瞭。Ashley這個新作Very Important People (VIP)講的還是模特的故事,但是這次的主角其實已經悄悄轉換成夜店策劃(promoter),類似...
評分全美最美社會學傢Ashley Mears又齣書瞭,之前我寫過一篇[日誌放]瞭幾張照片給讀者們擼。現在Ashley已經三十好幾,到瞭女人的黃金年齡看起來更好擼瞭。Ashley這個新作Very Important People (VIP)講的還是模特的故事,但是這次的主角其實已經悄悄轉換成夜店策劃(promoter),類似...
圖書標籤: 社會學 時尚 社交 女性研究 女人 Sociology 美國 Mears
與其說是在寫very important people,不如說是在寫『酒吧老闆跟酒吧pimp的視角跟生活』
評分為瞭帶去“優質”的girls而各顯神通的皮條客;在精心誘導下瘋狂消費的富豪;被各方利用卻也樂在其中的party girls;一起做一場清醒又糊塗的夢。
評分莫名想到《華爾街之狼》,一場又一場喧囂華麗的夢。
評分為瞭帶去“優質”的girls而各顯神通的皮條客;在精心誘導下瘋狂消費的富豪;被各方利用卻也樂在其中的party girls;一起做一場清醒又糊塗的夢。
評分Conspicuous consumption is not an inherent trait of the rich, but produced by promoters, club owners, and importantly, girls' careful orchestration. Relational work and gender labor makes lavish elite parties go around, while the pleasure of leisure mystifies the labor process and solicits consent to the exploitation of such labor. Mears的文筆實在是太優美瞭。
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