Prescribing Beauty
What does it mean to be beautiful, to be ugly? Is ugliness a disease that must be “cured” with high-tech surgery and chemical injections? Prescribing Beauty explores compelling questions about physical attractiveness, examining how facial featur...
Beauty: Survival of the Prettiest
Poetry leaves beauty to the eye of the beholder. Science, on the other hand, seems to have discovered its parameters—suggesting that the same array of facial components sparks attraction in every culture and country. Without fully surrendering to ...
The Fat Body (In)Visible
"While I have all the confidence in the world, I’m told every day that my body is revolting." Jessica turns heads in the street—for both her striking fashion, and larger than average body. She has learned to ignore the frequent insults which com...
The beauty backlash
With its "Real Beauty" information and marketing campaign, the Dove brand struck a chord with women skeptical of unhealthy or absurd standards of attractiveness. But did the campaign have the widespread impact Dove intended? And what are the implica...