In the Flesh The Cultural Politics of Body Modification [Paperback]

Through an interview-based study, Victoria Pitts has researched the subcultural milieu of contemporary body modification, focusing on the ways sexuality, gender and ethnicity are being reconfigured through new body technologies - not only tattooing, but piercing, cyberpunk and such 'neotribal' practices as scarification. She interprets the stories of sixteen body modifiers (as well as some subcultural magazines and films) using the tools of feminist and queer theory. Pitts not only covers a hot topic but also situates it in a theoretical context.Bodies, Inscription, and Agency Reclaiming and Female Body: Women Body Modifiers and the Grotesque Sexuality, Queerness and Body Technologies Modern Primitivism and the Deployment of the Other The Body On-line: Sex, Gender and Cyberpunk

'This work provides insight into a relatively understudied segment of the population.' - Debra Moore, Library Journal

VICTORIA PITTS is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queen's College, City University of New York.