Beauty Is the Beast

by Ann H. Beuf

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Americans spend more than five billion dollars a year on cosmetics. In such a culture, to be unattractive is to be at a disadvantage; to have a physical abnormality that impairs one's appearance is to be stigmatized and rejected. Destructive to adults, this rejection can be devastating to children. In Beauty is the Beast , Ann Hill Beuf examines the stigmatization of children who deviate from American standards of acceptable physical appearance. Children...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812282345

ISBN13:9780812282344

Release Date:May 1990

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary

Length:152 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Grade Range:Postsecondary

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