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In the Flesh

The Cultural Politics of Body Modification

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  • © 2003

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  1. Victoria L. Pitts
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Bodies of Power

    • Victoria L. Pitts
    Pages 1-22

  3. Subversive Bodies, Invented Selves

    • Victoria L. Pitts
    Pages 23-48

  4. Reclaiming the Female Body

    • Victoria L. Pitts
    Pages 49-86

  5. Visibly Queer

    • Victoria L. Pitts
    Pages 87-118

  6. Modern Primitivism and the Deployment of the Other

    • Victoria L. Pitts
    Pages 119-149

  7. Cyberpunk, Biomedicine, and the High-Tech Body

    • Victoria L. Pitts
    Pages 151-184

  8. Reading the Postmodern Techno-Body

    • Victoria L. Pitts
    Pages 185-197

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 199-239
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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 piercing, cyberpunk and such 'neotribal' practices as scarification. She interprets the stories of sixteen body modifiers (as well as some subcultural magazines and films) using the tools of feminist and queer theory. Pitts not only covers a hot topic but also situates it in a theoretical context.

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'This work provides insight into a relatively understudied segment of the population.' - Debra Moore, Library Journal

About the author

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

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