Philosophy 60 - Overview of stories
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'Perfect Me' Heather Widdows
The book, 'Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal', deemed by The Atlantic as one of the 19 best books of 2018 and 鈥痓y Edarabia as one of the 100 books to read in a lifetime
Written by Professor Heather Widdows – who works on real world ethical issues, from women鈥檚 rights, to genetic justice, and now focuses on beauty ideals and body image in Selfie Culture ...
Vogue Cover and article on 'Lookism'
A Vogue Magazine cover and the full page article inside Vogue on 鈥楲ookism鈥�.
The article reports on Professor Heather Widdows鈥檚 #everydaylookism campaign, a campaign modelled on the Everyday Sexism campaign. The aim is to share lookist stories, to raise the awareness of lookism and make a collective claim that saying negative things about other peoples bodies – body-shaming – is never ok, no matter who you are or how well-intentioned your reasons ...