Very Important People

书名：Very Important PeopleStatusandBeautyintheGlobalPartyCircuit
作者：AshleyMears
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ISBN：9780691168654
出版社：PrincetionUniversityPress
出版时间：2020-5-26
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：320
豆瓣评分： 8.5

书籍简介：

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：

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.

书友短评：

@ makzhou 要是友鄰早一點安利這本書多好，寫《虛構安娜》的影評其實是可以從這裡得到靈感的（沒關係反正我還沒寫），社交場合裡不存在免費一說，假如不是用美色償付，就是要用權力和關係網絡去兌付（只是看起來對其不值一提但並不是毫無成本），這作者真的是理應寫這一系列的書的，講真不是模特兒，很難打入內部瞭解到這些吧，不然就算找到了個靠譜的promoter去到private club了進門前都能被doorman拒絕或者羞辱，“你可以事後說，但你不要當（她）面說好嗎？！”我聽著直接笑死，看門的真的太mean，但也是為了飯碗mean。 @ 聿紅 美女社会学家会拥有一些特权（bushi

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