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Navigating Tattooed Women’s Bodies

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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 ar...
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Although tattoos have become increasingly available to us, there are still spaces where they are not accepted, and even 'othered'. Looking at the UK, where media discourses are often unfavourable towards tattooed women discussing their own bodies, 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 female body art.  

Drawing our attention to how traditional constructions of femininity are conformed to and resisted against, Dann positions media discourses of trends, regret, and transformation alongside tattooed women’s own thoughts of their tattoos. The chapters uncover how tattoos relate to the embodiment, or resistance, of femininity where the body plays a complex role – in care, in the community, and in families. Delving into the societal norms about what women should and shouldn’t do with their bodies, and looking specifically at motherhood, employment, and consumption, Dann demonstrates how meaning-making is critical to how women’s tattooed bodies are understood, and how personal narratives take centre stage in the justification for tattoos. Providing a fuller understanding of the nuances particular to tattooed women, this book equips readers to reconstruct how we theorize femininity and the body.
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Price: $99.99
Pages: 128
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Series: Emerald Studies in Popular Culture and Gender
Publication Date: 01 October 2021
ISBN: 9781839098314
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, Social groups: alternative lifestyles, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Customs & Traditions, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Gender studies: women and girls, Cultural and media studies

Charlotte Dann is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Northampton, UK. She specialises in qualitative research, and teaches critical social and developmental psychology. She runs her own website including research blogs and YouTube videos.

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Tattooed bodies in the media
Chapter 3. Reading the tattooed feminine body
Chapter 4. Following (and breaking) the rules
Chapter 5. Meaning is key
Chapter 6. Embodying femininity
Chapter 7. Conclusions