Bodies Of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo - Softcover

Mifflin, Margot

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189045110X ISBN 13: 9781890451103

Publisher: Juno Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

Bodies of Subversion traces the history of women and tattoo in Western society from the early 1880s to the present, charting the special significance tattooing has for women as a powerfully transgressive form of self-expression. “In this provocative work full of intriguing female characters from tattoo history, Margot Mifflin makes a persuasive case for the tattooed woman as an emblem of female self-expression.” — Susan Faludi

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Review:

'Mifflin's book is a fascinating and mesmerising journey... it is being reissued as a lavish new hardcover edition to celebrate the fact that there are now more inked women in America than tattooed men.... the best book about female ink ever!' ---- Bizarre Magazine (July)

About the Author:

Margot Mifflin writes about women, art, and contemporary culture. She has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, The Believer, and Salon.com, and she lectures about body modification at colleges, museums, and universities nationally. Mifflin is an associate professor in the English Department of Lehman College of the City University of New York (CUNY), and directs the Arts and Culture program at CUNY’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she also teaches. Her book The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman will be published by The University of Nebraska Press in March.

About this edition

• Publisher: Juno Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 189045110X
• ISBN 13: 9781890451103
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 178