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Analyzing the Aesthetic Labor of High Maintenance Hair

Blog post originally published HERE. A few months ago the website Inc.com featured the essay "Why Women Who Want to Be Leaders Should Dye Their Hair Blonde, According to Science" as it's lead article. As a (blonde) sociologist studying how appearance shapes women's labor market opportunities I read the article with great interest. The research itself seems fascinating and important, but the co Read more of this blog post »

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	Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year 3.47 avg rating — 506 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Crewel (Crewel World, #1)

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Full Frontal Feminism

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Too Big to Miss (An Odelia Grey Mystery, #1)

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“I'd learned that the same internal voice that told me I wasn't good enough had a habit of judging other women, too. They fed into each other, so it was best to quell such thoughts before they gathered strength.”
― Kjerstin Gruys, Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall: How I Learned to Love My Body by Not Looking at It for a Year

tags: feminism, judgement, judging, self-esteem, women

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