Appearance, Inequality and the Law
Appearance, Inequality and the Law

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Appearance, Inequality and the Law

By Hannah Saunders
Cambridge University Press September 2025

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ISBN-13
9781009605045
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
September 2025
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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People with disfigurements often face prejudice, exclusion and discrimination in employment and across other life contexts. Law's response to this evidence is flawed both by its own limited and illogical scope and its failure to understand the perspectives of those people who may need to use it.

Drawing on interviews with both people with lived experience of disfigurement and employers, the book sketches out different approaches to the complex social problem of discrimination against people with visible differences. It also asks whether, in our changing social context, law should widen its protection beyond disfigurement. Would a protected characteristic of appearance offer viable legal rights to the many millions of us who do not have a disfigurement but who are prone to a few spots, whose ears stick out more than we would like, or who are carrying an extra stone in weight?

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. Law's response to disfigurement inequality
3. Law's limited ambitions
4. The lived experience of visible difference
5. Disfigurement equality at work: employer perspectives
6. Defining disfigurement
7. Severity and complexity
8. Law and social change: are we expecting too much?
9. Alternative approaches in law and policy
10. Beyond disfigurement
11. Conclusion

Appendix 1: Model of good practice
Appendix 2: Empirical study information
References
Index
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