We are pleased to announce the publication of the Handbook of Beauty and Inequality, edited by Giselinde Kuipers and Outi Sarpila, and published Open Access by Springer in the Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research series.
Bringing together 28 chapters by leading international scholars, the volume examines how physical appearance is linked to social inequality. It explores when and how beauty becomes a source of advantage, and how aesthetic evaluations intersect with broader structures of gender, class, race, age, and global power relations.
Members of the BINQ team contributed Chapter “Beauty and Beauty Regimes in Global Power Relations,” which analyzes how beauty standards are shaped by global power dynamics and shifting geopolitical hierarchies.
The book is freely available online:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-08035-6