Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One: The Nature of Ugliness; Chapter 1: Nineteenth-Century Precedents; Chapter 2: Descriptions of Ugliness: Twentieth-Century Examples: Part Two: The Consequences of Ugliness; Chapter 3: The Effect of Ugliness on the Self; Chapter 4: The Effect of Ugliness on Relations with Others; Part 3: Ugly Women in Contemporary American Fiction; Chapter 5: Adjusting the Stereotype; Chapter 6: Anger, Sex and Fate; Chapter 7: The Rise of the Ugly Woman; Chapter 8: Becoming Something Powerful; Bibliography; Index.
