Tattooed Bodies

Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, and Pleasure

Nikki Sullivan

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English

Praeger Publishers Inc
30 September 2001

Body art & tattooing; Social & political philosophy; Popular culture; Social theory

Drawing on the works of a number of postmodern theorists, this study suggests that the tattooed body is symptomatic of a general process of marking and being marked and is a social production of identity and difference. Shifting the focus away from what the tattooed body means to what it does, this work analyzes how it functions and what effects it produces. It challenges the ways in which identity and difference are discursively produced, particularly in psychological, criminological, and counter-cultural discourses. The writings of such theorists as Foucault, Levinas, Barthes, and Lingis are scrutinized to reveal how their discourse interprets the tattooed body as simply an aberrant threat to the body or simply a positive counter-cultural challenge. These theories are supplanted with this unique approach to notions of subjectivity, textuality, ethics, and pleasure and to the relationships among them.

This examination of the role of the body in social, political, and ethical relations will attract scholars from a number of disciplines, including cultural studies, gender studies, philosophy, visual arts, sociology, and English. It will also appeal to critics and practitioners in contemporary practices of body modification.

By: Nikki Sullivan
Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780275966751
ISBN 10: 0275966755
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 30 September 2001
Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

NIKKI SULLIVAN is a lecturer in Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University./e She has published articles on body modification, self-mutilation, and queer theory.

Reviews for Tattooed Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, and Pleasure

".,.""Sullivan's work will offer students of the body, identity, and subjectivity and oppurtunity to extend classic debates between modernism and postmodernism. This is the work's greatest strenght: It provides a creative point to begin building bridges between and beyond these two perspectives.""-Contemporary Sociology ?...Sullivan's work will offer students of the body, identity, and subjectivity and oppurtunity to extend classic debates between modernism and postmodernism. This is the work's greatest strenght: It provides a creative point to begin building bridges between and beyond these two perspectives.?-Contemporary Sociology ...""Sullivan's work will offer students of the body, identity, and subjectivity and oppurtunity to extend classic debates between modernism and postmodernism. This is the work's greatest strenght: It provides a creative point to begin building bridges between and beyond these two perspectives.""-Contemporary Sociology"