Colorism is a form of discrimination based on skin tone wherein people with light (er)
complexions are advantaged over those with dark (er) ones. In this review, we define key …

Purpose The present study explored the young women's lived experiences of discrimination
and othering based on skin tone in two rural localities of Uttarakhand, State of India. The …

Gender Inequality in Our Changing World: A Comparative Approach focuses on the
contemporary United States but places it in historical and global context. Written for …

Discourses on social inequalities and the processes that sustain, reproduce, and reify them
have been a long-standing area of scholarship. This paper focuses its attention on …

The skin-lightening products for men in India and their mode of advertising have been
shaping the concept of attractiveness for Indian men by portraying lighter skin tone as the …

Skin lightening cuts across multiple and intersecting areas of interest to sociologists. These
include consumerism, capital, the body, femininities, masculinities, the power of the media in …

Colourism or skin colour stratification is a persistent dilemma for people in India. Socially
and culturally constructed definitions of beauty based on skin tone, represent Western …

Over the last three and half-decade of my life, I have seen the changes in dermatology and
marked paradigm shift towards procedural dermatology and cosmetic dermatology …

This study used the distributive justice framework to examine the impact of colorism among
young Indian children. Colorism is privileging of lighter skin and discrimination against …

Humanity has been obsessed with the partiality towards fair skin since time immemorial
leading to unhealthy practices. The recent manifestation of this obsession is the huge …