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Appearance, inequality, and the law / Hannah Saunders, Queen Mary University of London.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Saunders, Hannah, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge bioethics and law.
- Cambridge bioethics and law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Disfigured persons--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Disfigured persons.
- Discrimination against people with disabilities--Law and legislation.
- Discrimination against people with disabilities.
- Physical-appearance-based bias.
- Equality before the law.
- Civil rights.
- Body image.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- People with disfigurements often face prejudice, exclusion and discrimination in employment and across other life contexts. Law's response to this evidence is flawed both by its own limited and illogical scope and its failure to understand the perspectives of those people who may need to use it. Drawing on interviews with both people with lived experience of disfigurement and employers, the book sketches out different approaches to the complex social problem of discrimination against people with visible differences. It also asks whether, in our changing social context, law should widen its protection beyond disfigurement. Would a protected characteristic of appearance offer viable legal rights to the many millions of us who do not have a disfigurement but who are prone to a few spots, whose ears stick out more than we would like, or who are carrying an extra stone in weight?
- Contents:
- LAW'S RESPONSE TO DISFIGUREMENT INEQUALITY
- LAW'S LIMITED AMBITIONS
- THE LIVED EXPERIENCE OF VISIBLE DIFFERENCE
- DISFIGUREMENT EQUALITY AT WORK : EMPLOYER PERSPECTIVES
- DEFINING DISFIGUREMENT
- SEVERITY AND COMPLEXITY
- LAW AND SOCIAL CHANGE : ARE WE EXPECTING TOO MUCH?
- ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES IN LAW AND POLICY
- BEYOND DISFIGUREMENT.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jul 2025).
- ISBN:
- 1-009-60508-9
- 1-009-60503-8
- 1-009-60507-0
- OCLC:
- 1530373980
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