Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment

The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text

By: Frances E. Mascia-Lees (Editor), Patricia Sharpe (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 September 1992

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184 Pages

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Analyzes the power of culture to encode its messages on the human form.

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"This exciting book engages the most current debates about the representation of the human body, particularly the female body, in various media such as literature, film, and popular magazines. Thoroughly conversant with the latest in feminist criticism, gender theory, and the predicaments of postmodern culture, the authors explore various narratives and images through which the gendered body is currently represented. "What makes this a coherent volume is the shared interest throughout the essays in the representation of the body surface (tattooing, perfuming, weightlifting) and body penetration (rape, torture) and the relationship of these matters to the issue of gender. This volume thus combines a theoretical sophistication with attention to a variety of fascinating case studies that illuminate the predicament of the body in postmodern culture." - Howard Eilberg Schwartz, Stanford University

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