#3258. Sexual Harassment in Display Work: The Case of the Modeling Industry

October 2026publication date
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Abstract:
The feminist analysis focuses on sexual harassment within a specific category of jobs known as display work, where primarily women’s bodies are commodified and sold to consumers. Using qualitative content analysis methods to analyze 88 subjective, first-person narratives of harassment from 70 models working within the fashion business, I describe how the commodification of bodies interacts with the particular features of the modeling industry to produce an environment in which opportunities for sexual harassment can proliferate. These factors impose extreme worker vulnerability costs on predominantly women and ultimately contribute to maintaining gender-based, hierarchical power differentials between men wielding authority within the industry and these models over time.
Keywords:
economy; gender; inequality; stratification and mobility; work and organizations

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