Description: Further DetailsTitle: What's Wrong with Lookism?Condition: NewSubtitle: Personal Appearance, Discrimination, and DisadvantageISBN-10: 019285979XEAN: 9780192859792ISBN: 9780192859792Publisher: Oxford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 07/27/2023Description: People are treated differently as a result of their looks. But when is appearance discrimination, or "lookism" as it is often called, morally objectionable? This issue is important for at least two reasons. First, the benefits that flow to people who are regarded as visually attractive are sizeable and are enjoyed in a number of contexts, including employment, personal relationships, education, politics, and the criminal justice system. Second, appearance discrimination is of moral interest not only in its own right, but also in terms of its connection to other forms of discrimination. Appearance norms, that is, norms concerning how we should look, often place greater burdens on disadvantaged groups. As a result, discrimination on the basis of appearance, when it rewards people who conform to these norms, may involve, or interact with, the effects of, wrongful discrimination on the basis of features other than appearance, in a way that aggravates existing injustices.What's Wrong with Lookism? examines the morality of appearance discrimination in three contexts: employment decisions; the choice of friends or romantic partners; and the everyday practice of judging and commenting upon people's looks. Andrew Mason develops a pluralist theory of what makes discrimination wrong that identifies three wrong-making features, namely, disrespect, deliberative unfairness, and contributing to unjust consequences, and demonstrates how the presence of one or more of these features in each of these contexts problematises the lookism that takes place in it.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 223mmItem Length: 146mmItem Width: 19mmAuthor: Andrew MasonGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityBook Series: New Topics in Applied PhilosophyItem Weight: 452gRelease Year: 2023 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What's Wrong with Lookism?
Title: What's Wrong with Lookism?
Subtitle: Personal Appearance, Discrimination, and Disadvantage
ISBN-10: 019285979X
EAN: 9780192859792
ISBN: 9780192859792
Release Date: 07/27/2023
Release Year: 2023
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: What's Wrong with Lookism? : Personal Appearance, Discrimination, and Disadvantage
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Ethics & Moral Philosophy, General, Aesthetics, Political
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.7 in
Item Weight: 15.9 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Philosophy
Item Length: 8.5 in
Author: Andrew Mason
Item Width: 5.4 in
Series: New Topics in Applied Philosophy Ser.
Format: Hardcover
