Beauty Bias
Subtitle: Discrimination and Social Power
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: July 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780275990121
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Political control & freedoms; Political Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; Discrimination & Racism; Interpersonal Relations; Prejudice; Social Science / Sociology / General; General; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; Beauty, Personal; Physical-appearance-based bias; Social aspects
Description: "Society has always been fixated on the looks of celebrities, but how we look has deep ramifications for ordinary people, too. In this book, Bonnie Berry explains how social inequality pertains to prejudice and discrimination against individuals based on their physical appearance. This form of inequality overlaps with other, better-known forms of inequality such as those that result from sexism, racism, ageism, and homophobia. Social inequality regarding looks is notable in a number of settings: work, medical treatment, romance, and marriage, to mention a few. It is experienced as limitations on access to social power. Berry discusses the pressures to be attractive and the methods by which we strive to alter our appearance through plastic surgery, cosmetics, and the like."--Jacket.