Bodies Of Subversion av Margot Mifflin

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Newly revised and expanded, this remains the only book to chronicle the history of both tattooed women and women tattooists.<BR><BR>Bodies of Subversion was the first history of women''s tattoo art when it was released in 1997, providing a fascinating excursion to a subculture that dates back to the nineteenth-century and including many never-before-seen photos of tattooed women from the last century. As the primary reference source on the subject, it contains information from the original edition, including documentation of:<BR><BR>·Nineteeth-century sideshow attractions who created fantastic abduction tales in which they claimed to have been forcibly tattooed.<BR>·Victorian society women who wore tattoos as custom couture, including Winston Churchill''s mother, who wore a serpent on her wrist.<BR>·Maud Wagner, the first known woman tattooist, who in 1904 traded a date with her tattooist husband-to-be for an apprenticeship.<BR>·The parallel rise of tattooing and co