New Article, "Does This Make Me Look Fat?" Published in Social Problems

Hey folks,

Time for some flagrant self-promotion. I'm excited to announce the publication of my paper, "Does This Make Me Look Fat?: Aesthetic Labor and Fat Talk as Emotional Labor in a Women's Plus Size Clothing Store" in the current edition of Social Problems .






Read it and you'll learn all about my experience working in a Plus-Size clothing store. There are plenty of crazy stories (An employee weight-loss contest?! Skinny managers "Fat Talk" to Plus Sized sales associates?!?), plus academic analyses explaining why the stories matter.




Follow this link to an electronic version of the article:




http://www.kjerstingruys.com/website/Publications_files/Does_This_Make_Me_Look_Fat_.pdf







Show and tell: I'd love to know your own war stories from shopping for clothes.  Rude salespeople? Warped "skinny mirrors"? 

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