Beauty as Structural Inequality: Femininity, Race and Skin-lightening
In this post, Dr. Meeta Rani Jha discusses the role beauty plays in creating
structural and individual privilege, as well as contributing to discrimination
and inequality. Her research focuses on the ways in which
the categories of beauty and femininity intersect as key sites through which
exclusion and structural inequality in life opportunities are reproduced across
hierarchies of gender, race, colour, caste and class.
Thanks so much for this article. I am now on the last of my dissertation and was happy to read this. Thanks
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