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Pitts, Victoria

 
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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 p

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

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." . . a fascinating and sensitive look at body modification subcultures and the political debates surrounding them."-Patricia Clough, author of "Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology "
"The book refreshingly moves the arresting figure of the extreme body modifier out of the realm of the pathological and the masochistic and reveals how these practices and their disturbing embodiments challenge the tyrannical concept of normalcy that keeps the rest of us narrowly in check."--Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University

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