ISBN:
0230600271
,
9780230600270
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 201 p)
,
ill
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Tattoos in American Visual Culture
DDC:
391.6/5
Keywords:
Tattooing Social aspects
;
Tattooing
;
Body image
Abstract:
In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book shows how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of gender, class, and exoticism through their discursive performances. Fenske suggests working within dominant discourse to represent and subvert oppressive gender and class evaluations.
Abstract:
In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book tells the story of the history of the tattooed body on display in the Unites States while demonstrating how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of gender, class, and exoticism through their discursive performances
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Picturing Tattoos; One: Vital Images: The Performance of Performativity; Two: Modern Day Sideshows: Class, Classification, and Tattoo Conventions; Three: Rosie Gets a Tattoo: Gender, Fragmentation, and Advertising; Four: Modern Primitives: Exoticism, Hybridity, and Photography; Conclusion: Imag(E)Ining Agency and Criticism; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-193) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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