Verge 9 (2012-2013)

Randi Turner, Yellow Fever

Jeff Bessen, Homology and Convergence in the Evolution of the Eye

Weston Kulvete, “The Bitter Dream”: Internalized Racism in the Passing Narratives of the Harlem Renaissance

Megan Rucker Livingston, Utopia Within Dystopia: Stand on Zanzibar as Speculative Postcolonial Literature

Dorie Chevlen, Youngstown

Colin Breen, Beyond the Master Plot: Exceptional Literature in Stalin’s USSR

Samantha Haas, Orphans in South Africa and the Stigma of HIV/AIDS

Christina Murphy, HIV/AIDS and Income Generation: The Use of Microfinance Initiatives as a Prevention Strategy in Sub-Saharan African Refugee Camps

Ben Mueser, Individual Responsibility in Aristotle’s Politics

Tim Proser, The Core of Us: Properties of the Socialization Process and the Influence of Social Class Therein

Maya Ward, De engaños y valores olvidados

Lila Scott, La homosexualidad como enfermedad mental

In This Issue

The Attractive, the Unattractive, and the Ugly: Appearance Adjectives and Gender

“Even the terms we see as “ungendered” can still be applied inequitably. Seemingly positive terms can, in this way, come to represent wider differences in societal ideals applied to different social groups. This data asks the question: if women are talked about as “attractive” so much more often than men, what does this mean for “unattractive” women? If it is so important for women to be “attractive,” what does that mean when someone is unable to or simply does not want to follow that social norm?”

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