In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification - Softcover

Pitts, Victoria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312293119 ISBN 13: 9780312293116

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Synopsis

Through an interview-based study, Victoria Pitts has researched the subcultural milieu of contemporary body modification, focusing on the ways sexuality, gender and ethnicity are being reconfigured through new body technologies - not only tattooing, but p

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From the Inside Flap:

". . . a fascinating and sensitive look at body modification subcultures and the political debates surrounding them."-Patricia Clough, author of Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology

"The book refreshingly moves the arresting figure of the extreme body modifier out of the realm of the pathological and the masochistic and reveals how these practices and their disturbing embodiments challenge the tyrannical concept of normalcy that keeps the rest of us narrowly in check."--Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University
|". . . a fascinating and sensitive look at body modification subcultures and the political debates surrounding them."-Patricia Clough, author ofAutoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology

"The book refreshingly moves the arresting figure of the extreme body modifier out of the realm of the pathological and the masochistic and reveals how these practices and their disturbing embodiments challenge the tyrannical concept of normalcy that keeps the rest of us narrowly in check."--Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University

About the Author:

VICTORIA PITTS is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queen's College, City University of New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0312293119
• ISBN 13: 9780312293116
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256