Reality for Whom? Deconstructing INK and the Contested "Tattooed Body"

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dc.contributor.advisorSchultz, Jessica Jen_US
dc.contributor.authorChaudry, Amie Annetteen_US
dc.contributor.departmentKinesiologyen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2009-03-24T05:34:32Z
dc.date.available2009-03-24T05:34:32Z
dc.date.issued2008en_US
dc.description.abstractThe extent to which tattoo culture has been pervasively corporatized within the mainstream over the past decade indicates a critical juncture in the history of Western tattooing, one that signals the transition of the tattoo from a signifier of stigma to one of status, and a turn from the tattoo <italic>community</italic> of the past to a tattoo <italic>industry</italic>. I argue that a seemingly accurate body of knowledge called &ldquo;tattooed reality&rdquo; is disseminated through this industry and must be analyzed because it conveys a particularly problematic way of knowing, organizing, producing, and representing tattooed bodies. Using data from a media analysis of <italic>Miami Ink</italic> and <italic>L.A. Ink</italic> to inform interviews with local tattoo artists, I highlight how the tattooed body has become a contested space as &ldquo;tattooed reality&rdquo; discourse fragments and divorces tattooing from its disreputable past, and reappropriates it as an aesthetic cultural commodity of the middle-class.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/8977
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociology, Generalen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAmerican Studiesen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcommercializationen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmediaen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtattooen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtattooed bodyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtattooed realityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledtattooingen_US
dc.titleReality for Whom? Deconstructing INK and the Contested "Tattooed Body"en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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