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Book SynopsisIntroduction. Beauty and Inequality: New Questions for a Fragmented Field.- Part I: Beauty.- Beauty as Subordinate Capital.- Beauty and Morality.- Sexual Capital.- Evolutionary Approaches to Beauty.- Beauty as Gendered Inequality.- Beauty as Evaluation.- Beauty and Meritocracy.- Part II: Mechanisms.- Beauty and Romantic Outcomes.- Beauty and Romantic Outcomes.- Beauty and Hiring Discrimination.- Beauty and Social Capital.- How Beauty Impacts Life Satisfaction: Objective, Subjective and Mediating Effects.- Beauty, Media Representations and Body Image.- Looking Right for the Job: Appearances, Unequal Chances, and Gatekeeping in the Labor Market.- Part III: Intersections.- Beauty, Gender, and Ageing.- Beauty, Race/Ethnicity, and Gender Inequalities.- Beauty, Bodies and Elites.- Body Size and Social Class: Beauty and Stigma in a Tale of Two Habitus.- Clothing, Beauty and Inequality.- Beauty, Gender and Parenthood.- Beauty Regimes and Global Inequalities.- Part IV: Fields.- Cosmetic Surgery.- Beauty and Work: Continuity and Change in the Analysis of Aesthetic Labour.- Sexual Fields and Women’s Sexual Capital: Online Challenges and Insights.- Beauty and Teaching.- Beauty, Dating, and Desirability.- Beautyvism: Beauty as a Political Tool.- Beauty and Fashion.- Lookism: the Morality of Appearance Discrimination.
