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Covered in Ink: "Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body"
Beverly Yuen Thompson
Abstract
Coveredin Ink’s main objective is to present the experience of heavily tattooed women: their love of ink as well as their experiences of prejudice from strangers, family, employers, and media representations. While other books and media focus exclusively on the tattoo designs, Covered Women takes a macro-sociological approach to understanding heavily tattooed women in society as they struggle with gender norms, employment discrimination, family rejection, and social stigma. Women’s experiences within the tattoo community are so very rarely mentioned within tattoo books; therefore, a book devot ... More
Keywords: women, tattoos, stigma
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 | Print ISBN-13: 9780814760000 |
| Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: September 2016 | DOI:10.18574/nyu/9780814760000.001.0001 |
