On the Politics of Ugliness

Ugliness or unsightliness is much more than a quality or property of an individual's appearance-it has long functioned as a social category that demarcates access to social, cultural, and political spaces and capital. The editors of and authors in this collection harness intersectional and inte...

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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
Subjects:
Culture-Study and teaching.
Queer theory.
Culture.
Gender.
Identity politics.
ISBN:9783319767833
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: On the Politics of Ugliness (Sara Rodrigues and Ela Przybylo). -2. Ugliness (Nina Athanassoglou-Kallmyer). -3. Listening to the Ugliness of Hetero-Erotic Miscommunication in Bruno Dumont's Twentynine Palms (Yetta Howard)
  • 4. "Put On All Your Make-Up and Cry It Off In Public": The Function of Ugliness in Femme Grieving Practices (Andi Schwartz)
  • 5. I Want to Kill Myself (Vivek Shraya, Photography by Zachary Ayotte)
  • 6. The Lesson of the Cockroach: Towards an Ethics of Ugliness (Esther Hutfless and Elisabeth Schäfer)
  • 7. (Un)Mapping the City Beautiful: Orlando Florida's 'Ugly' Settler Colonial Legacy (Stephanie Wheeler)
  • 8. New Body Project(s): "Excess" Skin the in the Context of Massive Weight Loss (Yasmina Katsulis)
  • 9. The Indiscreet Charms of Spatial Ugliness: An Enquiry into a (Post)Colonial City (Sayandeb Chowdhury)
  • 10. Stigma Stains: The Somaesthetics of Institutional Abjection (Natasha Lushetich)
  • 11. Agatha's Breasts on a Plate: "Ugliness" as Resistance and Queerness (Bernadette Wegenstein)
  • 12. Imagining Ugliness: Failed Femininities, Shame, and Disgust Written onto the "Other" Body (Breanne Fahs)
  • 13. Ugliness as Colonial Violence: Mediations of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (Katherine Morton)
  • 14. Writing Ugly (Melody Ellis)
  • 15. Butler's Monsters: The Grotesque and the Black Communal Body in Octavia Butler's Dawn (Jalondra Davis)
  • 16. On the Limitations of the Rhetoric of Beauty: Embracing Ugliness in Contemporary Fat Visual Representations (Stefanie Snider)
  • 17. The Ugly, the Uninvited, the Unseen in the Work of Sia & Emma Sulkowicz (Karina Eileraas Karakuş)
  • 18. Teaching While Ugly: A Story of Racial Pulchritude, Privilege, and Pedagogy (Michael Johnson, Jr.)
  • 19. The Ugly Gaze (Shannon Bell).

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