Beauty Bias: Discrimination and Social Power

by Bonnie Berry

Book Overview

Society has always been fixated on looks and 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 people 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 classism. Social inequality regarding looks...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275990125
• ISBN13: 9780275990121
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.3"