Publications

Books & Book Chapters

This Year's Model: Fashion, Media, and the Making of Glamour. New York University Press, 2015.

The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies, edited with Eugenia Paulicelli and Veronica Manlow. Routledge, 2022.

Animal Laborans: The Labor of Fashion, with the Fashion Praxis Collective. SelfPassage, 2017.

Fashioning Models: Image, Text, and Industry, edited with Joanne Entwistle. Bloomsbury, 2012.

"Supremacy or Symbiosis? The Effect of Gendered Ideologies of the Transhuman versus Posthuman on Wearable Technology and Biodesign" in Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination, edited by Andrea Cossu and Jorge Fontdevila. Bristol University Press, 2023.

"The Sociology of Self-Tracking and Embodied Technologies: How Does Technology Engage Gendered, Raced, and Datafied Bodies?" in The Oxford Handbook of Digital Media Sociology edited by Deana A. Rohlinger and Sarah Sobieraj. Oxford University Press, 2021.

"Click-Click-Gimme-Gimme: Pleasures and Perils of the “Opt In” World of Fashion Tech," in Embodied Computing: Wearables, Implantables, Embeddables, Ingestibles, edited by Isabel Pedersen and Andrew Iliadis. The MIT Press, 2020.

"Judith Butler: Fashion and Performativity," in Thinking Through Fashion, edited by Agnès Rocamora and Anneke Smelik. IB Tauris, 2019.

"Foreword" in Fashion Professionals: Identity and Representation at Work in the Creative Industries, edited by Leah Armstrong and Felice McDowell. Bloomsbury, 2018.

"From ‘Geek’ to ‘Chic:’ Wearable Technology and the Woman Question," in Digital Sociologies, edited by Jessie Daniels, Karen Gregory, and Tressie McMillan Cottom. Policy Press, 2016.

"Fashion Modeling, Blink Technologies, and New Imaging Regimes," in Fashion Media: Past and Present edited by Djurdja Bartlett, Shaun Cole, and Agnès Rocamora. Bloomsbury, 2013.

Articles

"Can Biodesign Fix Fashion?" Biodesigned Cumulus Conference Proceedings, Guayaquil 2021

"Dress like a Mum/Mom: Instagram Style Mums and the Fashionable Ideal" with Joanne Entwistle, Fashion Theory 27, 4:1–38, 2021.

“Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Navigating Creepy versus Cool in Wearable Biotech. Information, Communication & Society, 21, 5: 779785, 2018

 Foreword to the Issue: Beauty, WSQ: Women’s Studies Quarterly,  with Elena Glasberg, 46: 1–2, 2018.

"Wearable tech, bodies, and gender." Sociology Compass Journal, 11:11, 2017.

"Mythologies of Creative Work in the Social Media Age: Fun, Free, and 'Just Being Me,'" with Brooke Duffy, International Journal of Communication, 11: 4652–4671, 2017.

"Glamour Labour in the Age of Kardashian," Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, 7, 2: 141–152, 2016. 

"Fashioning Fat: Inside Plus-Size Modeling," Contemporary Sociology, 45, 4: 427–428, 2016.

"#NoFilter: Models, Glamour Labor, and the Age of the Blink," Theorizing the Web 2014—Interface 1.1, 1–20, 2014.

"Managing the semiotics of skin tone: Race and aesthetic labor in the fashion modeling industry," Economic and Industrial Democracy  33, 1: 125143, 2012.