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  1. The beauty bias
    the injustice of appearance in life and law
    Author: Rhode, Deborah L.
    Published: ©2010
    Publisher:  Oxford University Press, New York

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0199706735; 9780199706730
    RVK Categories: MS 2850
    Subjects: LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Beauty, Personal; Sex discrimination against women / Law and legislation; Women / Health and hygiene / Sociological aspects; Women / Legal status, laws, etc; Frau; Recht; Women; Beauty, Personal; Women; Sex discrimination against women; Recht; Schönheit
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 252 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    The importance of appearance and the costs of conformity -- The pursuit of beauty -- Critics and their critics -- The injustice of discrimination -- Legal frameworks -- Strategies for change

    "It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliché for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. This book explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. 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. Three quarters of women consider appearance important to their self image and over a third rank it as the most important factor. Although appearance can be a significant source of pleasure, its price can also be excessive, not only in time and money, but also in physical and psychological health. Our annual global investment in appearance totals close to $200 billion.

    Many individuals experience stigma, discrimination, and related difficulties, such as eating disorders, depression, and risky dieting and cosmetic procedures. 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. This book also explores the social, biological, market, and media forces that have contributed to appearance related problems, as well as feminism's difficulties in confronting them. It reviews why it matters. Appearance related bias infringes fundamental rights, compromises merit principles, reinforces debilitating stereotypes, and compounds the disadvantages of race, class, and gender. Yet only one state and a half dozen localities explicitly prohibit such discrimination. The book provides the first systematic survey of how appearance laws work in practice, and a compelling argument for extending their reach.

    It offers case histories of invidious discrimination and a plausible legal and political strategy for addressing them. 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
  2. Gender, law and justice in a global market
    Author: Stewart, Ann
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Theories of gender justice in the twenty-first century must engage with global economic and social processes. Using concepts from economic analysis associated with global commodity chains and feminist ethics of care, Ann Stewart considers the way in... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
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    Theories of gender justice in the twenty-first century must engage with global economic and social processes. Using concepts from economic analysis associated with global commodity chains and feminist ethics of care, Ann Stewart considers the way in which 'gender contracts' relating to work and care contribute to gender inequalities worldwide. She explores how economies in the global north stimulate desires and create deficits in care and belonging which are met through transnational movements and traces the way in which transnational economic processes, discourses of rights and care create relationships between global south and north. African women produce fruit and flowers for European consumption; body workers migrate to meet deficits in 'affect' through provision of care and sex; British-Asian families seek belonging through transnational marriages

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780511996375
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    RVK Categories: PI 6500 ; PR 2213
    Series: Law in context
    Subjects: Frau; Recht; Sex discrimination in employment / Law and legislation; Sex discrimination against women / Law and legislation; Women / Legal status, laws, etc; Feministische Rechtswissenschaft; Weltmarkt; Geschlechterforschung; Weltwirtschaft
    Scope: 1 online resource (xv, 360 pages)
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    Introduction : living in a global north consumer society : a contextual vignette -- Constructing relationships in a global economy -- Globalising feminist legal theory -- State, market and family in a global north consumer society -- Gender justice in Africa : politics of culture or culture of economics? -- From anonymity to attribution : producing food in a global value chain -- Constructing body work -- Global body work markets -- Constructing South Asian womanhood through law -- Trading and contesting belonging in multicultural Britain -- Conclusion