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A review by bowienerd_82
Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo by Margot Mifflin
4.0
"In the never-ending project of women's self-transformation, tattoos are both an end and a beginning, a problem and a solution... Collectively, they form a secret history of women grappling with body politics from the Gilded Age to the present" - from the conclusion of the book.
This is a fascinating and gorgeous book, bursting with photos of tattoos of all sorts from the last hundred plus years, along with history, context, and critical analysis. Mifflin details the history of tattooing among western women, from the tattooed ladies of the circus, to the rise of tattooing post-second wave feminism, to the explosion of mainstream tattoos in the 90s.
This is a fascinating and gorgeous book, bursting with photos of tattoos of all sorts from the last hundred plus years, along with history, context, and critical analysis. Mifflin details the history of tattooing among western women, from the tattooed ladies of the circus, to the rise of tattooing post-second wave feminism, to the explosion of mainstream tattoos in the 90s.