Ugly woman
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The ugly woman is a surprisingly common figure in Italian poetry, one that has been frequently appropriated by male poetic imagination to depict moral, aesthetic, social, and racial boundaries.
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See also
- Blazon of the Ugly Tit
- "Ugly Woman", a popular calypso song
- Abjection
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References
- The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque( 2005) by Patrizia Bettella
- On Ugliness (2007) by Umberto Eco.
- The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity (1994) - Mary J. Russo
- Horror and the Monstrous Feminine by Barbara Creed.
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