Ugly differences : queer female sexuality in the underground / Yetta Howard.

By:

Howard, Yetta [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Urbana, Chicago : University of Illinois Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780252050572
0252050576

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Ugly differencesDDC classification:

306.7601 23

LOC classification:

HQ75.5

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Contents:

Introduction: ugliness, underground, queer difference -- Postpunk desires -- The language of violation -- Politically incorrect, visually incorrect -- The erotics of artificiality -- Conclusion: the negative.

Summary: 'Ugly Differences' explores queer female sexuality's symbiotic relationship with ugliness and offers a way to see worth in ugliness as a generative category for reimagining the inhabitation of gender, sexual, and ethnic differences. Ugliness, in this work, is a multipronged concept: it equates with the disagreeable and pejorative traits that are attributed to queerness; it aligns itself with nonwhite, nonmale, and nonheterosexual physicality and experience; and it refers to anti-aesthetic textual practices, which are located in/as underground culture.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-181) and index.

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'Ugly Differences' explores queer female sexuality's symbiotic relationship with ugliness and offers a way to see worth in ugliness as a generative category for reimagining the inhabitation of gender, sexual, and ethnic differences. Ugliness, in this work, is a multipronged concept: it equates with the disagreeable and pejorative traits that are attributed to queerness; it aligns itself with nonwhite, nonmale, and nonheterosexual physicality and experience; and it refers to anti-aesthetic textual practices, which are located in/as underground culture.