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Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text
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Title: Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text
Author: Frances E Mascia-Lees
F: 1727323
ISBN: 9780791410660
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 190
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description:
Author: Frances E Mascia-Lees
F: 1727323
ISBN: 9780791410660
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 190
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description:
Analyzes the power of culture to encode its messages on the human form.
Contemporary theory across a wide range of disciplines denaturalizes the body and reveals it to be a social construction. Cultural practices which deform, adorn, mutilate, and obliterate the body illustrate that it is an important site for the inscription of culture. The authors draw on cross currents in feminist theory, literary criticism, anthropology, and history to analyze several such cultural practices as examples of the power of culture to encode its messages on the human form.
