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Tattoos in American Visual Culture, Mindy Fenske

Tattoos have during the last few decades undergone a cultural transformation, from being a mark of deviance belonging to the lower social classes and something one should not “do to oneself”, to being relatively accepted in today’s society. This is not just as a passing fad, but also as representative of a broader change of […]

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Written on the Body: Difference and Transgression

My paper for the Cultural Production and Negotiation of Borders conference was accepted today. The abstract is below.
Our bodies define a border between ourselves and the world around us. However we might feel about our body, it is what we present to the world. Victoria L. Blum in her book Flesh Wounds discusses how bodies […]

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