Category: Class

Racialised aesthetic inequality

Feliciano, C. (2016). Shades of race: How phenotype and observer characteristics shape racial classification.

Lamont, M., Beljean, S., & Clair, M. (2014). What is missing? Cultural processes and causal pathways to inequality.

Maddox, K. B. (2004). Perspectives on racial phenotypicality bias.

Monk Jr, E. P., Esposito, M. H., & Lee, H. (2021). Beholding inequality: Race, gender, and returns to physical attractiveness in the United States.

Petersen, A. M. (2017). Complicating race: Afrocentric facial feature bias and prison sentencing in Oregon.

White beauty as science

Bhopal, R. (2007). The beautiful skull and Blumenbach’s errors: the birth of the scientific concept of race. bmj.

Junker, T. (2018). Blumenbach’s theory of human races and the natural unity of humankind. In N. Rupke & G. Lauer (Eds.), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Routledge.

Painter, N. I. (2010). The history of White people. WW Norton & Company.

Richards, R. J. (2018). The beautiful skulls of Schiller and the Georgian girl: quantitative and aesthetic scaling of the races 1770-1850. In N. Rupke & G. Lauer (Eds.), Johann Friedrich Blumenbach. Routledge.

Teo, T. (2009). Psychology without Caucasians. Canadian Psychology/Psychologie Canadienne.

White slavery + beauty prestige

Barker, H. (2023). Slavery in the Black Sea region. In D.A. Pargas, and J. Schiel (eds.), The Palgrave handbook of global slavery throughout history. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. Open Access.

Fredrickson, B. L., & Roberts, T. A. (1997). Objectification theory: Toward understanding women’s lived experiences and mental health risks. Psychology of women quarterly.

Moxey, K. P. (1991). Semiotics and the social history of art. New Literary History, 985-999.

Painter, N. I. (2010). The history of White people. WW Norton & Company.

Body Prism

Brand, B. (2023). Body prism: An exploration of aesthetic embodied ageing [In preparation, doctoral dissertation]. University of Kent.

Jablonski N. (2021). The evolution of human skin pigmentation involved the interactions of genetic, environmental, and cultural variables. Pigment Cell Melanoma Research.

Jablonski, N. (2020). Skin color and race. American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Jablonski, N. (2017). The anthropology of skin colors: An examination of the evolution of skin pigmentation and the concepts of race and skin of color. In N. Vashi & H. Maibach (Eds.). Dermatoanthropology of ethnic skin and hair, (pp. 1-11).

Jablonski, N. and Chaplin, G. (2017). The colours of humanity: the evolution of pigmentation in the human lineage. Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Our body is aesthetic & functional…

Don’t Shock Me: Madalyn’s law USA/NJ petition.

Lauren Wasser – Shocking TRUE Story: “I Lost Both Of My Legs Because Of A Tampon” (Health Warning). Diary of a CEO: Steven Bartlett (youtube).

Toxic shock syndrome – National Health Service (NHS).

Probiotic combo stops bacteria that cause toxic shock syndrome. Science Daily.

Schlievert, P. M., Gaitán, A. V., Kilgore, S. H., Roe, A. L., Maukonen, J., Lehtoranta, L., … & Marsman, D. S. (2023). Inhibition of Toxic Shock Syndrome-Associated Staphylococcus aureus by Probiotic Lactobacilli. Microbiology Spectrum, e01735-23.

Meaning-making is…

Caracciolo, M., & Kukkonen, K. (2021). With bodies: Narrative theory and embodied cognition. The Ohio State University Press.

Johnson, M. (2008). What makes a body? The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 22(3), 159-169. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25670709.

Lakoff, G. & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the flesh: the embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. Basic Books.

Positive Marginality…

Bower, K. L., Lewis, D. C., Bermúdez, J. M., & Singh, A. A. (2021). Narratives of generativity and resilience among LGBT older adults: Leaving positive legacies despite social stigma and collective trauma. Journal of Homosexuality, 68(2), 230-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2019.1648082.

De Vries, B. (2015). Stigma and LGBT aging: Negative and positive marginality. In N. A. Orel & C. A. Fruhauf (Eds.), The lives of LGBT older adults: Understanding challenges and resilience (pp. 55–71). American Psychological Association. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/14436-003.

Unger, R. K. (2000). The 1999 SPSSI Presidential Address: Outsiders inside: Positive marginality and social change. Journal of Social Issues. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1111/0022-4537.00158.

Personal well-being…

Cole, E. R. (2009). Intersectionality and research in psychology. American Psychologist, 64(2), 170-180. DOI: 10.1037/a0014564.

Collins, P. H. (1990). Black feminist thought: Knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment. Routledge.

May, V. M. (2015). Pursuing Intersectionality, unsettling dominant imaginaries. Routledge.

McCall, L. (2005). The complexity of intersectionality. Signs, 30, 1771-1800.

Romero, M. (2018). Introducing Intersectionality. Polity Press.

Aesthetic objectification = othering…

Frith, H. (2012). Appearance and Society (Chapter 2). In N. Rumsey and D. Harcourt (Eds.): The Oxford handbook of the psychology of appearance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Platt, L., F., & Lenzen, A., L. (2013). Sexual orientation microaggressions and the experience of sexual minorities. Journal of Homosexuality, 60(7), 1011-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2013.774878.

Skeggs, B. (2005). Exchange, value and affect: Bourdieu and ‘the self’. Sociological Review, 52(2), 75-95. https://doi-org.arts.idm.oclc.org/10.1111/j.1467-954X.2005.00525.x.

Skeggs, B. (2005). The Making of Class and Gender through Visualizing Moral Subject Formation. Sociology, 39(5), 965-82. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0038038505058381.

Raisborough, J., & Adams, M. (2008). Mockery and morality in popular cultural representations of the white, working class. Sociological Research Online, 13(6), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.5153%2Fsro.1814.

Valentine, J. (1998). Naming the other: power, politeness and the inflation of euphemisms. Sociological Research Online, 3(4). https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.5153/sro.184.