Beauty Is the Beast

by Ann H. Beuf

Book Overview

Americans spend more than five billion dollars a year on cosmetics. In such a culture, to be unattractive is to be at a disadvantage; to have a physical abnormality that impairs one's appearance is to be stigmatized and rejected. Destructive to adults, this rejection can be devastating to children. In Beauty is the Beast , Ann Hill Beuf examines the stigmatization of children who deviate from American standards of acceptable physical appearance. Children...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812282345
• ISBN13: 9780812282344
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary