In the Flesh The Cultural Politics of Body Modification

Name: In the Flesh The Cultural Politics of Body Modification
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ISBN: 9780312293116

ISBN-10: 0312293119

ISBN-13: 9780312293116

Edition: 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Victoria Pitts

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TThe 1990s saw the dramatic rise of spectacular forms of body modification, which included the tattoo renaissance and the rise in body piercing, the emergence of neo-tribal practices like scarification and flesh hanging, and the invention of new, high-tech forms of body art like subdermal implants. This book, based on years of interviews with body modifiers throughout the United States, is both sympathetic and critical and provides the most comprehensive look at this phenomenon. From punk rock to "modern primitives," from queer sadomasochism to cyberpunks, sociologist Victoria Pitts provides insight into the full range of body modification subcultures. Whether by turning themselves into…

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List price: $79.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 7/18/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 239
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction: 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


Conclusion: Reading the Postmodern Techno-Body


Notes


Bibliography


Index