Deborah L. Rhode: The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law
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It hurts to be beautiful has been a cliche for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be hired and promoted, and are assumed less likely to have desirable traits, such as goodness, kindness, and honesty. Three quarters of women consider appearance important to their self image and over a third rank it as the most important factor. Although appearance can be a significant source of pleasure, its price can also be excessive, not only in time and money, but also in physical and psychological health. Our annual global investment in appearance totals close to $200 billion. Many individuals experience stigma, discrimination, and related difficulties, such as eating disorders, depression, and risky dieting and cosmetic procedures.
Women bear a vastly disproportionate share of these costs, in part because they face standards more exacting than those for men, and pay greater penalties for falling short. The Beauty Bias explores the social, biological, market, and media forces that have contributed to appearance-related problems, as well as feminism's difficulties in confronting them. The book also reviews why it matters. Appearance-related bias infringes fundamental rights, compromises merit principles, reinforces debilitating stereotypes, and compounds the disadvantages of race, class, and gender. Yet only one state and a half dozen localities explicitly prohibit such discrimination. The Beauty Bias provides the first systematic survey of how appearance laws work in practice, and a compelling argument for extending their reach. The book offers case histories of invidious discrimination and a plausible legal and political strategy for addressing them. Our prejudices run deep, but we can do far more to promote realistic and healthy images of attractiveness, and to reduce the price of their pursuit.
Following the success of the author's British Railways Steam Locomotive Allocations, published 2011, Hugh Longworth produced a complementary volume which gave the complete allocation history for every BR steam locomotive from 1948 to 1968, and this detailed reference book proved extremely successful. This has now been updated to provide an even more comprehensive approach to the subject, and includes the following unique features: Full allocation history for each engine Thumbnail diagram for each class Full shed names listed in each entry (not just codes) Full shed recoding shown where relevant. A visual indication showing length of time at each shed Colour used to differentiate the regions Names shown All withdrawal dates shown Full coverage 1948-1968 (not just 1950 on as most other lists) The first book concentrated on snap shot views (three year intervals), giving the reader overviews of the The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law free download pdf subject, while this new volume focusses on individual engines, and tracks their wanderings in detail, giving the reader a complete history of each locomotive in the 20 years of steam on BR.
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Author: Deborah L. Rhode
Number of Pages: 272 pages
Published Date: 01 Jul 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780195372878
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