Very Important People (eBook)

Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

ashley Mears (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
320 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18989-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "e;models and bottles"e; 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 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 "e;models and bottles"e; 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 "e;girls"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 4 b/w illus. 2 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Advertising • anthropologist • Anthropology • Assortative Mating • At the Bar • available for sale • banker bros • Big Spender • billionaire • black people • Board of Directors • Bottle • Bottle service • bouncers • Boutique • Breakup • Britney Spears • brothel • Business Class • Business men • Calculation • Cannes • Capitalism • Career • Club Cool • club promoter • club promoters • club scene • Club X • Cocktail waitress • Commodity • Competition • Concierge • conspicuous consumption • Costume • credential • Cultural Capital • Customer • Department Store • Designer • disadvantage • DJ • DJs • Dom Pérignon • Double-Edged Sword (30 Rock) • Economic Inequality • Economic Power • economist • Electronic Dance Music • Elite • Employment • Entrepreneurship • Exclusion • Fashion Week • femininity • Finance • Financial crisis of 2007–08 • financier • First World • French Riviera • F. Scott Fitzgerald • Gender Inequality • George Soros • girl capital • Globalization • Guarantee • Gym • handbag • Hedge Fund • His Favorite • income • Inequality • Insider • Instagram • insurance • International Relations • In the Club (TV series) • In This World • Investor • It Girl • Jason Strauss • jay gatsby • Jho Low • Karaoke • Lithuania • Loud music • Lunch • Luxury Goods • male gaze • Masculinity • MDMA • meal • Midtown Manhattan • modeling agency • Model (person) • Motherfucker • My Phone • nightclub • nouveau riche • Obligation • Paris Hilton • Patriarchy • Payment • personal network • person of color • Pierre Bourdieu • Placard • popularity • Pretty Face • Primates of Park Avenue • Procuring (prostitution) • Prostitution • Quantity • real estate broker • Restaurant • Retail • Rich Kids Instagram • Rule Of Thumb • russian oligarch • salary • saving • Senegal • Sexism • sexual ethics • Sexual Exploitation • sexual trafficking • Sex Work • Sex Worker • Shopgirl • Sneer • Social capital • Social Class • Social distance • Social Status • Sociology • Some Men • sparkler • sparkling wine • Starbucks • Strategic group • strip club • Stripper • Sumptuary law • Superiority (short story) • Supermodel • super rich • Symbolic Capital • Table Dance • Tax • Taxi dance hall • text messaging • That Girl • That Night • The Low Lights • Theory of the Leisure Class • The Other Hand • These Girls • the theory of the leisure class • The Thibaults • Thorstein Veblen • Tokenism • Toxic Masculinity • trafficking women • Transactional sex • unpaid work • Upper Class • Urban nightlife • velvet rope • Venture Capital • Veuve Clicquot • Victoria's Secret • VIP area • VIP lifestyle • Wealth • Wednesday Martin • white supremacy • Work Ethic • Yacht
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18989-7 / 0691189897
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18989-5 / 9780691189895