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aberrance

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aberrance noun aberration, abnormality, abnormity, anomaly, change, deviation, difference, distinguishing characceristics, erroneousness, error, individual characteristics, out of the ordinary, peculiarity, perversion, unnaturalness
See also: deviation, error, indirection, irregularity, perversion


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) Gilman shows how black female sexuality was constructed as deviant in 19th-century biological sciences by paying close attention to South African Sarah Baartman, also known as the Venus Hottentot, an icon of black female sexual aberrance and primitivism.
Synched to a catchy jazz sound track, Cuoghi's creatures at first humorously parade across the screen as if to flaunt their aberrance.
Aberrance, it appears, usally comes with an explanation.
 
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