“The beauty myth: Prescriptive beauty norms for women reflect hierarch- enhancing motivations leading to discriminatory employment practices”: Correction to Ramati-Ziber, Shnabel, and Glick (2019).

This contribution investigates and lays bare the ideological workings of racialized beauty myth as presented in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye by bringing together feminist theory and postcolonial theory of race. It demonstrates that racialized beauty norms are informed by both the constructs of gender and race, and that they serve as a tool of social positioning and social control in Western capitalist patriarchies. This kind of contextual understanding, which Morrison’s The Bluest Eye helps to foster on a number of structurally interlocked levels, is also of crucial importance for the understanding of the way beauty myth operates today in the context of globally exported Western beauty industry. Its basic tenets remain firmly rooted in the construction and perpetuation of racialized and gendered otherness, which is why The Bluest Eye remains an eye-opener and therefore a novel of lasting value for readers in general and, as this contribution demonstrates, for students of English literature in particular.

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The beauty myth: The culture of beauty, psychology, and the self

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e668592010-001 ◽

2009 ◽

Keyword(s):

The Self ◽

Beauty Myth

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Disability, the ‘good family’ and discrimination in the dismissal of a Presbyterian seminary professor

Journal of Language and Discrimination ◽

10.1558/jld.35571 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 133-161 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Valerie Hobbs

Keyword(s):

Religious Institutions ◽

Employment Practices ◽

Conservative Christianity ◽

Employment Termination ◽

Good Family ◽

The Supreme Court ◽

The Usa ◽

Witness Statements ◽

Religious Higher Education

Religious institutions in the USA, under the First Amendment, exhibit great strength in employment termination, given freedom by the Supreme Court to conduct their labour and employment practices with limited scrutiny. This article examines ways in which a Presbyterian seminary board report, justifying its decision not to renew a professor's contract, demonstrates discrimination in its use of the 'good family' ideal prominent within conservative Christianity. Focusing on intertextuality and representation of the professor's wife, a disabled woman, analysis presents evidence of an overall strategy of exclusion. The report consistently demonstrates support for negative witness statements about the professor and his wife while undermining the professor's accounts. The report's characterization of the professor's wife subsumes her identity under her husband's and assumes moral reasons for her disability and chronic illness, consistent with a nouthetic counselling ethos. Findings support the discriminatory potential of the 'good family' ideal, underscoring employees' unique vulnerability within religious higher education institutions.

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Happiness at Work and Motivation for a Sustainable Workforce: Evidence from Female Hotel Employees

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su13147778 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 13 (14) ◽

pp. 7778

Author(s):

Arzu Atan ◽

Hale Ozgit ◽

Fatos Silman

Keyword(s):

Hospitality Industry ◽

Employment Practices ◽

Hotel Employees ◽

North Cyprus ◽

Challenging Environment ◽

Female Employees ◽

Employee Happiness

Employment practices that support happiness at work are critical tools for developing a sustainable workforce. In today’s challenging environment, both economically and environmentally, the contribution of a sustainable workforce, which is the most critical asset for hospitality businesses to survive and succeed, cannot be ignored. This study explores the effects of motivational dimensions on happiness at work. These relationships were evaluated using the SPSS for Windows 25.0 and AMOS 23.0 programs. For this purpose, data were collected from 271 female employees in various four- and five-star hotels in North Cyprus. As predicted, the results revealed that motivational dimensions affect the dimensions of happiness at work. This study confirmed that a better understanding of employees’ needs and demands would encourage motivation and result in happier employees. The findings offer important implications for hospitality industry organizations seeking to maximize employee happiness in the workplace and strive for the sustainability of their workforce.

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