Very Important People : Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

作者：AshleyMears

出版社：PrincetionUniversityPress

副标题：StatusandBeautyintheGlobalPartyCircuit

出版年：2020-5-26

页数：320

定价：29.95

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9780691168654

内容简介
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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.

作者简介
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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.

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start from the buttom 的promoters 算不算励志？
一场梦.

作为一本波士顿大学最美女教授（好吧 我承认我确实搜了她的照片 长得有点maggie Q的感觉）花了八年企划 一年半密切跟踪写的书 总体来说看完是失望的 作为社科类书籍看太多叙事了 作为纪实文学看情节又太单薄 而且一直在重复同样的东西（他们确实开了很多酒 但是不用一直说啊！）本来有很多点可以切入 比如新时代收入的不平等，新经济富豪炫耀的社会学心理学经济学本质，男权社会下的女性物质化，高档俱乐部的利益…

这是Ashley Mears（阿什利·米尔斯，《美丽的标价》的作者）2020年出版的新书，讲述了她在模特行业工作之后，进入到富豪们的娱乐派对圈子中。在富豪研究方面，本书有两大贡献。第一，指出了凡勃伦所说的炫耀性消费并非完全天生的，自然而然运行的，其背后实际上有着大量不为人知的劳动（高端酒吧老板、酒吧掮客、模特们共同推动了富豪们的炫耀宴）。第二，不同于过去的基于本地社区的精英，现代的精英大多是全球…

Ashley Mears五年的模特生涯对她的学术研究有如一个珍宝库，可以不停地打捞里面亮闪闪的珍珠。从《美丽的标价》起始，到这本写美国大城市高端酒吧掮客如何利用女性（模特）的身体，赚取精英层人士的金钱和资源。不得不说，长得好看的人，才做得了这种田野调查，不然连门都进不去。

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