Pricing beauty: The making of a fashion model A Mears Univ of California Press, 2011 | 633 | 2011 |
Aesthetic labor for the sociologies of work, gender, and beauty A Mears Sociology Compass 8 (12), 1330-1343, 2014 | 245 | 2014 |
Working for Free in the VIP: Relational Work and the Production of Consent A Mears American Sociological Review 80 (6), 1099-1122, 2015 | 212 | 2015 |
How do cultural producers make creative decisions? Lessons from the catwalk FC Godart, A Mears Social Forces 88 (2), 671-692, 2009 | 198 | 2009 |
Size zero high-end ethnic: Cultural production and the reproduction of culture in fashion modeling A Mears Poetics 38 (1), 21-46, 2010 | 173 | 2010 |
Not just a paper doll: How models manage bodily capital and why they perform emotional labor A Mears, W Finlay Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 34 (3), 317-343, 2005 | 172 | 2005 |
Theoretical and methodological pathways for research on elites B Cousin, S Khan, A Mears Socio-Economic Review 16 (2), 225-249, 2018 | 162 | 2018 |
Discipline of the catwalk: Gender, power and uncertainty in fashion modeling A Mears Ethnography 9 (4), 429-456, 2008 | 104 | 2008 |
Very important people: Status and beauty in the global party circuit A Mears Princeton University Press, 2020 | 87 | 2020 |
Girls as elite distinction: The appropriation of bodily capital A Mears Poetics 53, 22-37, 2015 | 77 | 2015 |
7 Pricing Looks: Circuits of Value A Mears The worth of goods: Valuation and pricing in the economy, 155, 2011 | 61 | 2011 |
Gender on display: Peformativity in fashion modelling J Entwistle, A Mears Cultural Sociology 7 (3), 320-335, 2013 | 60 | 2013 |
The paradoxical value of deviant cases: Toward a gendered theory of display work A Mears, C Connell Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 41 (2), 333-359, 2016 | 59 | 2016 |
Ethnography as precarious work A Mears The Sociological Quarterly 54 (1), 20-34, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
Puzzling in sociology: On doing and undoing theoretical puzzles A Mears Sociological Theory 35 (2), 138-146, 2017 | 39 | 2017 |
Free to those who can afford it: The everyday affordance of privilege N McClain, A Mears Poetics 40 (2), 133-149, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
Bourdieu and the Body C Connell, A Mears | 30 | 2018 |
Seeing culture through the eye of the beholder: four methods in pursuit of taste A Mears Theory and society 43, 291-309, 2014 | 21 | 2014 |
Made in Japan: Fashion Modelling in Tokyo A Mears Fashioning models: Image, text and industry, 134-156, 2012 | 17 | 2012 |
Locating local knowledge in global networks: Scouting in fashion and football A Darr, A Mears Poetics 62, 1-14, 2017 | 16 | 2017 |