Tattoos In American Visual Culture
In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book shows how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of gender, class, and exoticism through their discursive performances. Fenske suggests working within dominant discourse to represent and subvert oppressive gender and class evaluations.
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Tattoos In American Visual Culture
In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book shows how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of gender, class, and exoticism through their discursive performances. Fenske suggests working within dominant discourse to represent and subvert oppressive gender and class evaluations.
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Tattoos In American Visual Culture

Tattoos In American Visual Culture

by Mindy Fenske
Tattoos In American Visual Culture

Tattoos In American Visual Culture

by Mindy Fenske

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Overview

In analyses of tattoo contests, advertising, and modern primitive photographs, the book shows how images of tattooed bodies communicate and disrupt notions of gender, class, and exoticism through their discursive performances. Fenske suggests working within dominant discourse to represent and subvert oppressive gender and class evaluations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230262843
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 11/27/2007
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 910 KB

About the Author

Mindy Fenske is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina. She is the winner of the 2005 National Communication Association’s Golden Anniversary Monograph Award for her 2004 essay: “The Aesthetic of the Unfinished: Ethics and Performance.” Recent publications have appeared in Text and Performance Quarterly and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

Table of Contents

Vital Images: The Performance of Performativity Modern Day Sideshows: Class, Classification, and Tattoo Conventions Rosie Gets a Tattoo: Gender, Fragmentation, and Advertising Modern Primitives: Exoticism, Hybridity, and Photography Imag(e)ining Agency and Criticism
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