On the Politics of Ugliness

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Rodrigues, Sara (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Przybylo, Ela (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Culture-Study and teaching.; Queer theory.; Culture.; Gender.; Identity politics.; Cultural Theory.; Queer Theory.; Culture and Gender.; Politics and Gender.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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).