Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text-Quality Guarantee

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Title: Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text

Author: Frances E Mascia-Lees

ISBN: 9780791410660

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 1992

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Number of Pages: 184

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

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.