The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (976 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199794448 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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She is the author or coauthor of twenty books, including In the Interests of Justice (O.U.P. 2003), and over 200 articles, and is the nation's most cited scholar on professional responsibility. Rhode is the Ernest W. and J.D., and is a former law clerk of Justice Thurgood Marshall, a former president of the Association of American Law Schools, a former chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women
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. Many individuals experience stigma, discrimination, and related difficulties, such as eating disorders, depression, and risky dieting and cosmetic procedures. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. Appearance-related bias infringes fundamental rights, compromises merit principles, reinforces debilitating stereotypes, and compounds the disadvantages of race, class, and gender. The book offers case histories of invidious discrimination and a plausible legal and political strategy for addressing them. "It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliche for centuries. Our annual global investment in appearance totals close to $200 billion. The book also reviews why it matters. 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. Yet only one state and a half dozen localities explicitly prohibit such discrimination. The Beauty Bias explores the social, biological, market, and media forces that have contributed to appearance-related problems, as well as f
Well argued brief for the not-quite-perfect J. Davis 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 at. Waste of Time Zorro 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 . "Good Ideas Bad Argument" according to xoxo. 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 vari
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. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. 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 i