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Gretchen E Henderson

teaches at Georgetown University and currently is the Hodson Trust-JCB Fellow at Brown University. Her latest book is Ugliness: A Cultural History.

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The history of ugliness shows that there is no such thing

When we call something ugly, we say something about ourselves – and what we fear or dread.

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