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

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

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Book Title: In the Flesh
Book Subtitle: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification
Authors: Victoria L. Pitts
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403979438
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-312-29311-6Published: 18 July 2003
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4039-7943-8Published: 15 May 2003
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 239
Topics: Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, general

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Bodies of Power

Subversive Bodies, Invented Selves

Reclaiming the Female Body

Visibly Queer

Modern Primitivism and the Deployment of the Other

Cyberpunk, Biomedicine, and the High-Tech Body

Reading the Postmodern Techno-Body

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