"Imagine yourself without a face--the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of…
"Imagine yourself without a face--the task seems impossible. The face is a core feature of our physical identity. Our face is how others identify us and how we think of our 'self'. Yet, human faces are also functionally essential as mechanisms for communication and as a means of…
Prejudicial appearances: the logic of American antidiscrimination law / Robert C. Post -- Stereotypes and the shaping of identity / Anthony Appiah -- "Appearances aside" / Judith Butler -- Cover blindness / Thomas C. Grey -- Discrimination in the eyes of the law: how "color blin…
A dialogue among five eminent scholars--in law and philosophy--about laws based on appearance.
The book examines key approaches to recognizing transsexualism from within a variety of fields and considers transsexuals' bodies, body projects and embodiment in relation to personal, political and medico-legal fields. It explores the ways in which transpeople's bodily aestheti…
"Recognizing Transsexuals is the first sociological examination of how the bodies of transpeople are figured and reconfigured in socio, politico and medico-legal contexts while considering the impact of these shifts"--Back cover.