Handbook of Beauty and Inequality
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This open access handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of theoretical perspectives, empirical insights and scholarly debates into the relationship between beauty and inequality: how does beauty shape and reproduce social inequalities, and how does social inequality shape appearance and beauty standards? This comprehensive review emerges out of the burgeoning research on appearance and inequality in recent years. The handbook brings together under one volume the widely dispersed research on this topic which uses different concepts, approaches and methods, often without reference to one…mehr

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This open access handbook offers a state-of-the-art overview of theoretical perspectives, empirical insights and scholarly debates into the relationship between beauty and inequality: how does beauty shape and reproduce social inequalities, and how does social inequality shape appearance and beauty standards? This comprehensive review emerges out of the burgeoning research on appearance and inequality in recent years. The handbook brings together under one volume the widely dispersed research on this topic which uses different concepts, approaches and methods, often without reference to one another. It does so by pulling together knowledge on appearance and inequality from different subfields of sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, gender studies, philosophy, management studies, communication and media studies, economics, legal studies, gerontology, psychology and evolutionary psychology, and creates talking points between and within disciplines. It presents different conceptualizations of beauty, including beauty as morality, capital, stigma, asset, merit and fashion. It also focuses on mechanisms linking beauty to inequality, drawing mainly on quantitative and analytical approaches, and looks at intersections between beauty and various axes of inequality. Finally, the work highlights institutional approaches to various fields in which beauty standards are created and reproduced. The chapters are written by established scholars from a range of disciplines and countries and discuss the literature, while also presenting original empirical research. This is a highly useful and handy resource for anyone interested in learning more about the field.

This exemplary and ambitious Handbook of Culture and Inequality is a timely contribution to our understanding of how beauty operates in our social world. The introduction offers a sharp analytical framework to organize what is a multi-layered interdisciplinary field, while the contributions carefully parse how beauty shapes inequality in fields of activity ranging from teaching, to politics and fashion. This book is certain to become a classic reference for everyone intrigued by the power of beauty.
Michèle Lamont, Harvard University

Autorenporträt
Giselinde Kuipers is a Research Professor of Sociology at the KU Leuven in Leuven, Belgium. She is a pioneer of research on beauty and inequality, and has expertise in cultural and media sociology, visual methods and mixed-methods designs. Her innovative ERC-funded mixed-methods project on the sociology of beauty and inequality was one of the first sociological studies on the topic. In 2022, she received her second ERC grant for her project Beauty and Inequality: Physical Appearance, Symbolic Boundaries and Social Dis/advantage in Five Global Cities. She has published extensively on beauty and inequality. She has also served as editor-in-chief for scientific journals and co-edited edited volumes, including the Handbook of Humour Studies.   Outi Sarpila is a Senior Research Fellow at the INVEST Research Flagship Centre at the University of Turku. Between 2023 and 2026, she is serving as a professor of sociology in the Department of Social Research at the University of Turku. Sarpila has led two externally funded research projects focused on themes of appearance and inequality. The most recent of these, funded by the Research Council of Finland, has partially facilitated this handbook project. Sarpila’s background is in economic sociology, and she has specialized in quantitative research on appearance. Her research on these themes has previously been published in journals such as¿Sociology,¿ European Sociological Review, and¿European Societies.