He treats ugliness as a disease, classifying its various forms and indicating such remedies as he can. His classes are coarseness, thinness, obesity, vulgarity, wrinkles, defects of circulation ...

The Phantom of the Opera, Ursula the Sea Witch, the Evil Stepmother. They all have something in common: Ugliness. As researchers and advocates have long pointed out, baddies are almost always ...

Galvanized by these concerns, the body positivity movement came forward with an equity-driven stroke of utopian engineering: All iterations of bodies, in all their diversity, should be identified ...