Elizabeth Wissinger is Associate Professor of Social Science at Borough of Manhattan Community College  whose current work deals with deconstructing accepted notions of culturally idealized bodies, looking beyond patriarchy and consumerism to consider how the current state of productive and scientific technologies influence the bodily ideal. Her forthcoming book is titled Fashioning Models: Image, Text, and Industry (London: Berg Publishers, 2011). Select journal publications include, “The Top Model Life” (Contexts: a publication of the American Sociological Association, 2010), “Modeling Consumption:Fashion modeling work in contemporary society” (Journal of Consumer Culture, 2009), and “Modeling a Way of Life: Immaterial and Affective Labor in Fashion Modeling Industry” (ephemera: theory and politics in organization, 2007).