Ugly Differences - Queer Female Sexuality in the Underground (Hardcover)

What would it mean to turn to ugliness rather than turn away from it? Indeed, the idea of ugly often becomes synonymous with non-white, non-male, and non-heterosexual physicality and experience. That same pejorative migrates to become a label for practices within underground culture. In Ugly Differences, Yetta Howard uses underground contexts to theorize queer difference by locating ugliness at the intersection of the physical, experiential, and textual. From that nexus, Howard contends that ugliness-as a mode of pejorative identification-is fundamental to the cultural formations of queer female sexuality. Slava Tsukerman's postpunk film Liquid Sky, Sapphire's poetry, Roberta Gregory's Bitchy Butch comix, New Queer Cinema such as High Art-these and other non-canonical works contribute to an audacious critique. Howard reveals how the things we see, read as, or experience as ugly productively account for non-dominant sexual identities and creative practices. Ugly Differences offers eye-opening ways to approach queerness and its myriad underground representations.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2018
Authors:	Yetta Howard
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	210
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-04188-4
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > Gay studies (Gay men) Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-252-04188-7
Barcode:	9780252041884

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