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Index
Front Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction: Pretty Ugly: A Question of Culture
ONE Ugly Ones: Uncomfortable Anomalies
Polyphemus: ‘A Monster of a Man’
Dame Ragnell: ‘She Was a Loathly One!’
A Grotesque Old Woman: ‘The Ugly Duchess’
William Hay: ‘Never Was, Nor Will Be, a Member of the Ugly Club’
Julia Pastrana: ‘The Ugliest Woman in the World’
ORLAN: ‘A Beautiful Woman Who Is Deliberately Becoming Ugly’
Ugly Ones: Uncomfortably Grouped
TWO Ugly Groups: Resisting Classification
Monsters and Monstrosities: Bordering Uglies
Outcasts and Outward Signs: Signifying Uglies
Primitives and Venuses: Colonizing Uglies
Broken Faces and Degenerate Bodies: Militarizing Uglies
Ugly Laws and Ugly Dolls: Legislating Uglies
Uglies United? Commercializing Ugly Groups
THREE Ugly Senses: Transgressing Perceived Borders
Ugly Sight: Seeing Is Believing?
Ugly Sound: Do You Hear What I Hear?
Ugly Smell: A Nose for Trouble?
Ugly Taste: Are You What You Eat?
Ugly Touch: Do Not Touch?
Sixth Sense: Feeling Is Believing?
Epilogue: Ugly Us: A Cultural Quest?
REFERENCES
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INDEX
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