Book Event Featuring Deborah Rhode - "The Beauty Bias: The Injustice of Appearance in Life and Law

Join Deborah L. Rhode, the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and the Director of the Center on Legal Profession at Stanford, for a lunchtime talk on her new book, "The Beauty Bias". “It hurts to be beautiful" has been a cliché for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. "The Beauty Bias" explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. The book explores the social, biological, market, and media forces that have contributed to appearance-related problems, as well as feminism's difficulties in confronting them. Appearance-related bias infringes fundamental rights, compromises merit principles, reinforces debilitating stereotypes, and compounds the disadvantages of race, class, and gender. Bring your own lunch, drinks provided. Free and open to all. The Clayman Institute is co-sponsoring this event with the Faculty Women's Forum.