Navigating Tattooed Women's Bodies : Intersections of Class and Gender.

This book explores how we understand tattooed women's bodies in the UK - through the lens of gender and class. Unpacking themes which focus on how femininity is embodied, and how unwritten rules are broken or followed, Charlotte Dann demonstrates how meaning is key to our understanding of femal...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dann, Charlotte
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bingley : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021.
Colección:Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender
Temas:
Tattooing > Social aspects > Great Britain.
Tattooed women > Great Britain.
Body image in women.
Sex role > Great Britain.
Femininity > Great Britain.
Tatouage > Aspect social > Grande-Bretagne.
Image du corps chez la femme.
Rôle selon le sexe > Grande-Bretagne.
Féminité > Grande-Bretagne.
Cultural studies.
Social Science > Women's Studies.
Body image in women
Femininity
Sex role
Tattooed women
Tattooing > Social aspects
Great Britain
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Navigating Tattooed Women's Bodies
  • Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender
  • Navigating Tattooed Women's Bodies: Intersections of Class and Gender
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • Author Standpoint
  • Bringing the Literature Together
  • Theorising Femininity
  • Gender, Performativity and Intersectionality
  • Societal Discourses That Are Produced
  • 2. Tattooed Bodies in the Media
  • The Moral and Cautionary Tales
  • Tattoos as 'Simply' a Trend
  • The Tattoo as Transformative
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • 3. Reading the Tattooed Feminine Body
  • The Visibility of Tattoos on the Body
  • Tattoos as Art on the Body
  • Good Taste and Skilful Consumption
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • 4. Following (and Breaking) the Rules
  • Generational Differences in Women's Tattoos
  • Negotiating Ageing Bodies
  • The Construction of Professionalism
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • 5. Meaning Is Key
  • Inscribing Meaning on the Skin
  • Communicating Personal Narratives with Tattoos
  • Embodying Pain as a Construction of Strength
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • 6. Embodying Femininity
  • Negotiating Femininity
  • Tattoo Imagery
  • Classed Femininity
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • 7. Conclusions
  • Bringing It All Together
  • Tattooed Bodies as Gendered and Classed
  • Regulation and Resistance
  • The Importance of Feminist Research
  • Appendix: The Method
  • References
  • Index

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