The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (864 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199794448 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. 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 Beauty Bias provides the first systematic survey of how appearance laws work in practice, and a compelling argument for extending their reach. Appearance-related bias infringes fundamental rights, compromises merit principles, reinforces debilitating stereotypes, and compounds the disadvantages of race, class, and gender. 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.. The book offers case histories of invidious discrimination and a plausible legal and political strategy for addressing them. Our annual global investment in appearance totals close to $200 billion. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. 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. 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
Well argued brief for the not-quite-perfect The Beauty Bias is a powerful attack on what the author, with some justification, considers a superficial society that values appearance, especially in women, over almost everything else. Most of us who have taken Psych 101 have heard of the halo effect, the tendency to consider attractive people smarter and kinder than less attractive people. Although she doesn'. Zorro said Waste of Time. The title notwithstanding, the book isn't really about "the beauty bias" as either a psychological or social phenomenon (Rhode is a lawyer, not a social scientist). It is rather about appearance discrimination in general, focusing mostly on discrimination based on race, disability, and obesity. I have no trouble believing such bias exists; sadly, though, Rhode do. Good Ideas Bad Argument This book has a really great idea about how there is a beauty bias and the discrimination between those who are attractive and those who are not. But I wish the author were less repetitive and instead wrote more about the psychological aspects for why this bias exists and what we can do.The book is basically a long list of various types of biases and repetition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Ferguson (the 1896 Supreme Court decision affirming "separate but equal" racial policies) is proven more than apropos in Rhodes' riveting overview of the ways in which appearance impacts hiring practices and job qualifications, in both overt and subtle ways. The author's own experience with appearance expectations in the seemingly egalitarian world of academia notwithstanding, most of the cases and examples she provides are unfortunately not surprising. All rights reserved. Legal or illegal is often beside the point when it comes to cases like those she surveys, though there are civil rights issues that immediately spring to mind for scholars in this field. . Rhodes argues that in jurisdictions with provisions protecting individuals from appearance-related discrimin
Rhode is the Ernest W. 2003), and over 200 articles, and is the nation's most cited scholar on professional responsibility. McFarland Professor of Law and the Director of the Center on the Legal Profession at Stanford University. She has a Yale B.A. Deborah L. and J.D., and is a former law clerk of Just