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Beauty Bias
Discrimination and Social Power
 Bonnie Berry

0-275-99012-5/978-0-275-99012-1

Description
Shows how beauty bias operates in favor of the attractive and against those who are seen as too heavy, too short, or merely unattractive, and explains the ramifications of beauty bias in our lives.

Reviews:
-Sociologist Berry has taught at several American universities....In this text, she tackles social inequality centered on physical appearance skin color, hair texture, height, weight, eye shape, disabilities and deformities, condition of the teeth, evidence of aging, and beauty which, compared to other forms of racism, is still legal and socially acceptable. Berry examines the ways that physical appearance affects health, chances at romance (and marriage and family), and workplace experiences; the activities and procedures people undergo to become more socially desirable via their appearance; how various systems medical and health insurance professions, the legal system, the global and economic community respond to people differently depending on appearance; the issue of choice to engage in appearance enhancement; and movements to promote looks-diversity acceptance. —Reference & Research Book News
-Public and general libraries. —Choice
About the Author
Bonnie Berry is the Director of the Social Problems Research Group in Gig Harbour, Washington, and was formerly university faculty at the University of Miami, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Washington, Indiana University, and Pacific Lutheran University. A sociologist, she is the author of Social Rage: Emotion and Cultural Conflict (1999) as well as many journal articles on the topics of social inequality, criminology, and animal rights.
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