| Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text Contributor(s): Mascia-Lees, Frances E. (Editor), Sharpe, Patricia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 079141065X ISBN-13: 9780791410653 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Beauty & Grooming - General - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 391.65 |
| LCCN: 91021296 |
| Series: Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion |
| Physical Information: 184 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |