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Author Pitts-Taylor, Victoria.

Title In the flesh : the cultural politics of body modification / Victoria L. Pitts.

Publication Info. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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 Moore Stacks  GN419.15 .P57 2003    Available  ---
Edition 1st Palgrave Macmillan ed.
Description vi, 239 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-234) and index.
Contents Bodies of power: new body art technologies -- Subversive bodies, invented selves: theorizing body politics -- Reclaiming the female body: women body modifiers and feminist debates -- Visibly queer: body technologies and sexual politics -- Modern primitivism and the deployment of the other -- Cyberpunk, biomedicine, and the high-tech body -- Reading the postmodern techno-body.
Subject Body marking.
Body marking.
Scarification (Body marking)
Scarification (Body marking)
Body piercing.
Body piercing.
Tattooing.
Tattooing.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Human body -- Social aspects.
Piercings.
Tattoos.
ISBN 0312293119 alkaline paper
0312293100