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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796949203321

Autore

Howard Yetta

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2018]

©2018

ISBN

0-252-05057-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Illinois scholarship online

Disciplina

306.7601

Soggetti

Lesbians - Identity

Ugliness

Queer theory

Lesbians in mass media

Alternative mass media

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

'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.