Publication Date
2018
Volume
30
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Scholars and other commentators have identified failures in the regulation of cosmetics-which depends heavily on voluntary industry self- regulation-and called for more stringent regulation of these products. Yet these calls have largely neglected an important dimension of the problem: the current laissez-faire approach to the regulation of cosmetics disproportionally places women, and particularly women who are members of other excluded groups, at risk. This Article examines federal cosmetics law and regulation through a feminist lens. It argues that cosmetics law and regulation have lagged behind that of the other major product categories regulated by the Food and Drug Administration under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938 because cosmetics are a gendered product and industry.
Recommended Citation
Marie Boyd, Gender, Race & the Inadequate Regulation of Cosmetics, 30 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW & FEMINISM 275 (2018).
Comments
Copyright © 2018 by Marie Boyd - Originaly published in YALE JOURNAL OF LAW & FEMINISM