Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-181) and index.
Introduction: ugliness, underground, queer difference -- Postpunk desires -- The language of violation -- Politically incorrect, visually incorrect -- The erotics of artificiality -- Conclusion: the negative.
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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.
JSTOR
22573/ctv3qdxcm
Ugly differences
9780252041884 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Alternative mass media.
Lesbians-- Identity.
Lesbians in mass media.
Queer theory.
Ugliness.
Alternative mass media.
Lesbians-- Identity.
Lesbians in mass media.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.